A Conversation about the Bethe Free Energy and Sum-Product

David J C MacKay, Jonathan S. Yedidia, William T. Freeman & Yair Weiss

This discussion document records an email conversation in preparation for the Trieste meeting.

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@techreport{MYFW2001,
 author={D. J. C. MacKay and J. S. Yedidia and W. T. Freeman and Y. Weiss},
 title={A Conversation about the {B}ethe Free Energy and Sum-Product},
 institution={Cambridge University / Mitsubishi},
 note={MERL TR-2001-18},
 year={2001},
 url={http://www.merl.com/reports/TR2001-18/index.html or http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/abstracts/bethe.html}
}