Many interesting problems, including Bayesian network structure-search, can be cast in terms of finding the optimum value of a function over the space of graphs. However, this fun...
The likelihood for patterns of continuous attributes for the naive Bayesian classifier (NBC) may be approximated by kernel density estimation (KDE), letting every pattern influenc...
We propose to solve the combinatorial problem of finding the highest scoring Bayesian network structure from data. This structure learning problem can be viewed as an inference pr...
Tommi Jaakkola, David Sontag, Amir Globerson, Mari...
In many domains, a Bayesian network's topological structure is not known a priori and must be inferred from data. This requires a scoring function to measure how well a propo...
Graphical models are usually learned without regard to the cost of doing inference with them. As a result, even if a good model is learned, it may perform poorly at prediction, be...