SUMMARY OF THE 2010 UAI APPROXIMATE INFERENCE CHALLENGE

The 2010 UAI approximate inference challenge ended on July 1st with 26 competing solvers by 9 different teams.

For three different tasks (computation of marginals, partition function and most probable explanation)
in three time frames (20 seconds, 20 minutes, 1 hour), the winners are:

Seconds PR MAR MPE
20Arthur Choi
(UCLA)
Arthur Choi
(UCLA)
Joris Mooij
(Max Planck)
1200Vibhav Gogate
(UW+UCI)
Vibhav Gogate
(UCI)
Thomas Schiex
(INRA)
3600Vibhav Gogate
(UW+UCI)
Vibhav Gogate
(UCI)
Joris Mooij
(Max Planck)

Winners who attended UAI received a free registration to the conference.
In addition, the three winners of more than one category, gave a short presentation of their solver in the main conference.

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