Yea, CRFs and graphical models in general are extremely versatile! It’s a shame more people don’t think about them. The major problem with them is computation,

Yea, CRFs and graphical models in general are extremely versatile! It’s a shame more people don’t think about them. The major problem with them is computation, but there are approximate methods like belief propagation, expectation propagation, and even sequential Monte Carlo that you can leverage depending on your inference goals.