Probabilistic Graphical Models on Multi-Core CPUs Using Java 8

In this paper, we discuss software design issues related to the development of parallel computational intelligence algorithms on multi-core CPUs, using the new Java 8 functional programming features. In particular, we focus on probabilistic graphical models (PGMs) and present the parallelization of a collection of algorithms that deal with inference and learning of PGMs from data. Namely, maximum ...