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The paper provides a simplified perspective on EDML and illustrated the benefits of such a simplified view. First, existing results about EDML are much easier to proce. Second, and most important, this new formulation provides a systematic procedure for deriving new instances of EDML for other models. This is illustrated for Markov networks. The derived EDML is shown to be competitive to existing learning approaches.