Tommi S. Jaakkola, Ph.D.
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Stata Center, Bldg 32-G498
Cambridge, MA 02139

E-mail: tommi at csail.mit.edu

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Inference papers
  • M. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. Willsky.
    Map estimation via agreement on (hyper)trees: Message-passing and linear-programming approaches.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 51(11):3697--3717, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • M. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. Willsky.
    A new class of upper bounds on the log partition function.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 51:2313--2335, 2005.
    [pdf]

  • M. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. Willsky.
    Tree consistency and bounds on the performance of the max-product algorithm and its generalizations.
    Statistics and Computing, 14(2):143--166, 2004.
    [pdf]

  • M. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. Willsky.
    Tree-based parameterization framework for analysis of belief propagation and related algorithms.
    IEEE Transactions on information theory, 2002.

  • M. J. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. S. Willsky.
    Exact map estimates by (hyper)tree agreement.
    In Advances in Neural Information processing systems 15, 2002.
    [gzipped postscript]

  • M. J. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. S. Willsky.
    A new class of upper bounds on the log partition function.
    In Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2002.
    [gzipped postscript]

  • M. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. Willsky.
    Tree-based reparameterization for approximate estimation on loopy graphs.
    In Advances in Neural Information processing systems 14, 2001.
    [pdf]

  • M. J. Wainwright, T. Jaakkola, and A. S. Willsky.
    Tree-based reparameterization framework for approximate estimation in graphs with cycles.
    LIDS Technical Report P-2510, 2001.
    [gzipped postscript]

  • T. Jaakkola.
    Tutorial on variational approximation methods.
    In Advanced mean field methods: theory and practice. MIT Press, 2000.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • B. Frey, R. Patrascu, T. Jaakkola, and J. Moran.
    Sequentially fitting inclusive trees for inference in noisy-or networks.
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13. MIT Press, 2000.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • T. Jaakkola and M. Jordan.
    Variational probabilistic inference and the qmr-dt database.
    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 10:291--322, 1999.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript], [pdf]

  • M. Jordan, Z. Ghahramani, T. Jaakkola, and L. Saul.
    An introduction to variational methods for graphical models.
    Machine Learning, 37(2):183, 1999.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • C. Bishop, N. Lawrence, T. Jaakkola, and M. Jordan.
    Approximating posterior distributions in belief networks using mixtures.
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10, 1997.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • T. Jaakkola.
    Variational methods for inference and estimation in graphical models.
    PhD thesis, MIT, 1997.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • T. Jaakkola and M. Jordan.
    Improving the mean field approximation via the use of mixture distributions.
    In Proceedings of the NATO ASI on Learning in Graphical Models. Kluwer, 1997.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • L. Saul, T. Jaakkola, and M. Jordan.
    Mean field theory for sigmoid belief networks.
    Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 4:61--76, 1996.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript], [pdf]

  • T. Jaakkola and M. Jordan.
    Recursive algorithms for approximating probabilities in graphical models.
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 9, 1996.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • T. Jaakkola and M. Jordan.
    Computing upper and lower bounds on likelihoods in intractable networks.
    In Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, pages 340--348, 1996.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]

  • T. Jaakkola, L. Saul, and M. Jordan.
    Fast learning by bounding likelihoods in sigmoid type belief networks.
    In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, 1995.
    [postscript], [gzipped postscript]