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Abstract This document will mainly be of interest to those who are re-implementing or extending “Choosing a Variable to Clamp” [1]. Most of the text is concerned with demonstrating a fairly straightforward isomorphism between forward and reverse-mode automatic differentiation applied to the belief propagation algorithm, in section 3. This shows that “Back-Belief Propagation” of [1] is performing similar updates to the “Linear Response” algorithm [3].
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