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Iterated conditional modes

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In statistics, Iterated Conditional Modes is a deterministic algorithm for obtaining the configuration that maximizes the joint probability of a Markov Random Field. It does this by iteratively maximizing the probability of each variable conditioned on the rest.

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Reference

  • Besag, J. E. (1986), "On the Statistical Analysis of Dirty Pictures", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 48 (3): 259โ€“302. JSTOR 2345426