• DocumentCode
    749937
  • Title

    Convergence of Min-Sum Message Passing for Quadratic Optimization

  • Author

    Moallemi, Ciamac C. ; Van Roy, Benjamin

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Bus., Columbia Univ., New York, NY
  • Volume
    55
  • Issue
    5
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    5/1/2009 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    2413
  • Lastpage
    2423
  • Abstract
    We establish the convergence of the min-sum message passing algorithm for minimization of a quadratic objective function given a convex decomposition. Our results also apply to the equivalent problem of the convergence of Gaussian belief propagation.
  • Keywords
    convergence; message passing; minimisation; quadratic programming; Gaussian belief propagation; convex decomposition; min-sum message passing; min-sum message passing algorithm; minimization; quadratic optimization; Belief propagation; Convergence; Decoding; Graphical models; Heuristic algorithms; Linear programming; Message passing; Minimization methods; Parity check codes; Sum product algorithm; Decentralized optimization; message-passing algorithms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9448
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TIT.2009.2016055
  • Filename
    4839028