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DOCS, Meaning of: Factors, Likelihoods, Potentials, Partials

Open dehann opened this issue 5 years ago • 1 comments

Define what is meant with these Nouns:

  • Factors: as captured in factor graph,
  • MessageLikelihood, a joint belief message propagating on the tree,
  • Potential, all likelihoods needed for a subgraph solve (Markov Potential)
  • Partial, a factor or likelihood that only constrains some of the dimensions

Related

  • #675 (where to store msg channels)
  • #679 (consolidate subgraph functions)

Code

  • https://github.com/JuliaRobotics/IncrementalInference.jl/blob/7c03d00d40281f64db074340adcd44df26031b3c/src/JunctionTreeTypes.jl#L237-L242

dehann avatar Apr 13 '20 14:04 dehann

also needs to be added to the verbNoun definitions wiki.

dehann avatar Jul 19 '20 04:07 dehann