Research-ish Notes

Inspired by the example of Jason Rennie, I have decided to place some short research notes on the Web. Generally, these are 2- or 3-page simple notes that answer a question either about my work or someone else's. Others of these describe implementation tricks that aren't relevant to a research paper, but may be useful for efficiently reproducing my or others' results.

pdf CRF Gradients Without Forward Passes
Charles Sutton, April 2006
pdf Factorization of KL-divergence Between Tree-Structured Distributions
Charles Sutton, July 2005
pdf Understanding Why Forward-Backward is Belief Propagation in Two Easy Steps
Charles Sutton, June 2004

If you find one of these notes useful, and wish to cite it, please use a citation like the following:

@misc{
,author = "Charles Sutton"
,title = "Understanding Why Forward-Backward is Belief Propagation in Two Easy Steps"
,year = 2004
,month = "June"
,howpublished = "http://www.cs.umass.edu/~casutton/notes/"
}

(The dates on these notes are the dates that I last revised them, which may be some time before I got around to putting them on the Web.)