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2003
14 years 11 months ago
Updating with incomplete observations
Currently, there is renewed interest in the problem, raised by Shafer in 1985, of updating probabilities when observations are incomplete (or setvalued). This is a fundamental pro...
Gert de Cooman, Marco Zaffalon
UAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Approximate Inference and Constrained Optimization
Loopy and generalized belief propagation are popular algorithms for approximate inference in Markov random fields and Bayesian networks. Fixed points of these algorithms correspo...
Tom Heskes, Kees Albers, Bert Kappen
UAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
An Empirical Study of w-Cutset Sampling for Bayesian Networks
The paper studies empirically the time-space trade-off between sampling and inference in the cutset sampling algorithm. The algorithm samples over a subset of nodes in a Bayesian ...
Bozhena Bidyuk, Rina Dechter
UAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Hierarchical Mixtures of Experts
The Hierarchical Mixture of Experts (HME) is a well-known tree-structured model for regression and classification, based on soft probabilistic splits of the input space. In its o...
Christopher M. Bishop, Markus Svensén
UAI
2003
14 years 11 months ago
Robust Independence Testing for Constraint-Based Learning of Causal Structure
This paper considers a method that combines ideas from Bayesian learning, Bayesian network inference, and classical hypothesis testing to produce a more reliable and robust test o...
Denver Dash, Marek J. Druzdzel