UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Recent research has made significant progress on the problem of bounding log partition functions for exponential family graphical models. Such bounds have associated dual paramete...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
A causal claim is any assertion that invokes causal relationships between variables, for example, that a drug has a certain e ect on preventing a disease. Causal claims are establ...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Probabilistic inference problems arise naturally in distributed systems such as sensor networks and teams of mobile robots. Inference algorithms that use message passing are a nat...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We consider the problem of estimating the distribution underlying an observed sample of data. Instead of maximum likelihood, which maximizes the probability of the observed values...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
A key prerequisite to optimal reasoning under uncertainty in intelligent systems is to start with good class probability estimates. This paper improves on the current best probabi...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
We show that the class of strongly connected graphical models with treewidth at most k can be properly efficiently PAC-learnt with respect to the Kullback-Leibler Divergence. Prev...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
In recent years, there is a growing interest in learning Bayesian networks with continuous variables. Learning the structure of such networks is a computationally expensive proced...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Bayesian learning in undirected graphical models--computing posterior distributions over parameters and predictive quantities-is exceptionally difficult. We conjecture that for ge...
UAI
2004
13 years 6 months ago
2004
Based on a recent development in the area of error control coding, we introduce the notion of convolutional factor graphs (CFGs) as a new class of probabilistic graphical models. ...