'We are stuck in a massive local optimum' — an old graphical models chart reignites the debate
ZeeshanZiaML · x · 2026-09-05
Reacting to rockt's 'we are stuck in a massive local optimum,' sirbayes points to an old chart from Zoubin Ghahramani's era showing graphical models subsuming nearly all statistics/ML methods of their time — mixture models, HMMs, Kalman filters, Ising models — as a metaphor: deep learning may be another local optimum.
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