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Abstract
Marginal MAP is a difficult mixed inference task for graphical
models. Existing state-of-the-art solvers for this task are based
on a hybrid best-first and depth-first search scheme that allows
them to compute upper and lower bounds on the optimal solu-
tion value in an anytime fashion. These methods however are
memory intensive schemes (via the best-first component) and
do not have an efficient memory management mechanism. For
this reason, they are often less effective in practice, especially
on difficult problem instances with very large search spaces.
In this paper, we introduce a new recursive best-first search
based bounding scheme that operates efficiently within limited
memory and computes anytime upper and lower bounds that
improve over time. An empirical evaluation demonstrates the
effectiveness of our proposed approach against current solvers.
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