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UAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Flexible Decomposition Algorithms for Weakly Coupled Markov Decision Problems
This paper presents two new approaches to decomposing and solving large Markov decision problems (MDPs), a partial decoupling method and a complete decoupling method. In these app...
Ronald Parr
UAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
The Bayesian Structural EM Algorithm
In recent years there has been a flurry of works on learning Bayesian networks from data. One of the hard problems in this area is how to effectively learn the structure of a beli...
Nir Friedman
UAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
A Multivariate Discretization Method for Learning Bayesian Networks from Mixed Data
In this paper we address the problem of discretization in the context of learning Bayesian networks (BNs) from data containing both continuous and discrete variables. We describe ...
Stefano Monti, Gregory F. Cooper
UAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Utility Elicitation as a Classification Problem
The majority of real-world probabilistic systems are used by more than one user, thus a utility model must be elicited separately for each newuser. Utility elicitation is long and...
Urszula Chajewska, Lise Getoor, Joseph Norman, Yuv...
UAI
1998
13 years 6 months ago
Inferring Informational Goals from Free-Text Queries: A Bayesian Approach
People using consumer software applications typically do not use technical jargon when querying an online database of help topics. Rather, they attempt to communicate their goals ...
David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz