Consistent inference of a general model using the pseudo-likelihood   method
  Recently maximum pseudo-likelihood (MPL) inference method has been successfully applied to statistical physics models with intractable likelihoods. We use information theory to derive a relation between the pseudo-likelihood and likelihood functions. We use this relation to show consistency of the pseudo-likelihood method for a general model. 
Alexander Mozeika, Onur Dikmen, Joonas Piili
cond-mat.dis-nn cond-mat.stat-mech