Lauritzen's score matching estimability conjecture

Let G=(V,E)G=(V,E) be a graph with mm vertices, and let nn be the sample dimension. The graph is nn-estimable when its score matching estimator exists with probability one.

Lauritzen's conjecture. The graph GG is nn-estimable if and only if

#V+#Enm(n2).\#V+\#E\leq nm-{n\choose 2}.

This conjecture proposed a purely numerical characterization of the score matching threshold. It is refuted by a graph counterexample in the paper.

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Elizabeth Gross and Seth Sullivant, “The Maximum Likelihood Threshold of a Graph”, arXiv:1404.6989 (2015).

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