@article {87,
	title = {Markov random fields factorization with context-specific independences},
	year = {2013},
	institution = {arXiv.org},
	abstract = {<p>Markov random fields provide a compact representation of joint probability distributions by representing its independence properties in an undirected graph. The well-known Hammersley-Clifford theorem uses these conditional independences to factorize a Gibbs distribution into a set of factors. However, an important issue of using a graph to represent independences is that it cannot encode some types of independence relations, such as the context-specific independences (CSIs). They are a particular case of conditional independences that is true only for a certain assignment of its conditioning set; in contrast to conditional independences that must hold for all its assignments. This work presents a method for factorizing a Markov random field according to CSIs present in a distribution, and formally guarantees that this factorization is correct. This is presented in our main contribution, the context-specific Hammersley-Clifford theorem, a generalization to CSIs of the Hammersley-Clifford theorem that applies for conditional independences.</p>
},
	issn = {arXiv:1306.2295},
	author = {Edera, Alejandro and Bromberg, Facundo and Schl{\"u}ter, Federico}
}
