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. 2014 Jun 20;63(5):753–771. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syu039

Figure 11.

Figure 11.

Message passing (belief propagation) on a tree graph. a) First phase, passing messages from the tips toward the root. b) Second phase, passing messages from the root towards the tips. After the second phase, all nodes have received messages from all of their neighbors, and their marginals can be computed. If only the probability of the entire tree or the marginals of the root node are of interest, the second phase is not needed.