Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

forward-backward algorithm

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: for-ward-back-ward al-go-rithm
IPA

49

Scrabble Score

24

Letters

6

Syllables

15

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An inference algorithm for hidden Markov models which computes the posterior marginals of all hidden state variables given a sequence of observations/emissions. It uses dynamic programming to compute the values in two passes, the first going forward in time and the second backward.

noun

Any algorithm belonging to the general class that operate on sequence models in a forward-backward manner.

Inflected Forms

forward-backward algorithms (plural)

Questions

What does forward-backward algorithm mean?: An inference algorithm for hidden Markov models which computes the posterior marginals of all hidden state variables given a sequence of observations/emissions. It uses dynamic programming to compute the values in two passes, the first going forward in time and the second backward.

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