arXiv Machine Learning By Adrian Ciotinga, Yeming Dai, YooJung Choi

PeTeR: Post-Training Robustification of Probabilistic Circuits

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arXiv:2607. 07671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Probabilistic circuits (PCs) can model complex joint distributions while supporting exact and efficient computation of many inference queries.

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