isinf: Efficient Inference in Ising Models

We gratefully acknowledge the authors of the following software incorporated into isinf:

Blossom V Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Vladimir Kolmogorov. Redistributed by permission of the author. Used by isinf's map and mme programs.

This software can be used for research and evaluation purposes only. Commercial use is prohibited. Public redistribution of the code or its derivatives is prohibited. For commercial use of the software not covered by this agreement, please contact the author. If you use these programs for research purposes, please cite the following paper in any resulting publication:

SuperLU Copyright (c) 2003 The Regents of the University of California, through Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (subject to receipt of any required approvals from U.S. Dept. of Energy). All rights reserved. Used by isinf's margs and mle.

Distributed under a BSD-style license; see the User's Guide for details. If used, please cite

  • James W. Demmel, Stanley C. Eisenstat, John R. Gilbert, Xiaoye S. Li, and Joseph W. H. Liu. A Supernodal Approach to Sparse Partial Pivoting. SIAM J. Matrix Analysis and Applications 20(3):720-755, 1999.
planarity Copyright (c) 1999-2005 John M. Boyer. Used by isinf's embed program.

Distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. If used, please cite:

L-BFGS Copyright (c) Jorge Nocedal. Used by isinf's mle program.

This software is freely available for educational or commercial purposes. We expect that all publications describing work using this software quote at least one of the references:

  • J. Nocedal. Updating Quasi-Newton Matrices with Limited Storage (1980), Mathematics of Computation 35, pp. 773-782.
  • D.C. Liu and J. Nocedal. On the Limited Memory Method for Large Scale Optimization (1989), Mathematical Programming B, 45, 3, pp. 503-528.
BT Copyright (c) 1989 Helga Schramm. Distributed by permission of the author. Used by isinf's mme program.

Permission is granted for non-commercial research and education use. If used, please cite:

  • Helga Schramm and Jochem Zowe. A version of the bundle idea for minimizing a nonsmooth function: Conceptual idea, convergence analysis, numerical results. SIAM J. Optimization, 2:121-152, 1992.

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isinf is Copyright (c) 2008, 2009 Nicol N. Schraudolph. All rights reserved.

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