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	การแพร่กระจายความคาดหวัง (EP)	[NEEDS TRANSLATION]
สาขาวิชา	เบย์	การเรียนรู้ของเครื่อง
ตระกูล	Bayesian methods	Latent structure
ปีกำเนิด	2001	2003
ผู้ริเริ่ม	Thomas P. Minka	Blei, D. M.; Ng, A. Y.; Jordan, M. I.
ประเภท	Approximate inference algorithm	Generative probabilistic topic model (three-level hierarchical Bayesian)
แหล่งต้นตำรับ	Minka, T. P. (2001). Expectation propagation for approximate Bayesian inference. In Proceedings of the Seventeenth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-01), pp. 362–369. Morgan Kaufmann.	Blei, D. M., Ng, A. Y., & Jordan, M. I. (2003). Latent Dirichlet allocation. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 3, 993–1022.
ชื่อเรียกอื่น	EP, expectation propagation, EP algorithm, assumed-density filtering generalisation	LDA, topic model, Blei-Ng-Jordan model, probabilistic topic modeling
ที่เกี่ยวข้อง	3	3
สรุป	Expectation Propagation (EP) is a deterministic message-passing algorithm for approximate posterior inference in Bayesian models, introduced by Thomas P. Minka at UAI 2001. It iteratively refines a set of local approximate factors — each drawn from the exponential family — so that their product closely matches the true intractable posterior, achieving higher accuracy than mean-field variational inference on many probabilistic machine learning tasks.	Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a generative probabilistic model for collections of discrete data, introduced by Blei, Ng, and Jordan in 2003. It treats each document as a mixture of latent topics and each topic as a probability distribution over words, enabling unsupervised discovery of thematic structure across large text corpora. It is one of the most cited papers in machine learning and natural language processing.