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1998
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Axiomatizing Causal Reasoning
Causal models defined in terms of a collection of equations, as defined by Pearl, are axiomatized here. Axiomatizations are provided for three successively more general classes of...
Joseph Y. Halpern
UAI
1998
14 years 3 days 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
UAI
1998
14 years 3 days ago
Large Deviation Methods for Approximate Probabilistic Inference
We study two-layer belief networks of binary random variables in which the conditional probabilities Pr childjparents depend monotonically on weighted sums of the parents. In larg...
Michael J. Kearns, Lawrence K. Saul
UAI
1998
14 years 3 days ago
An Anytime Algorithm for Decision Making under Uncertainty
We present an anytime algorithm which computes policies for decision problems represented as multi-stage influence diagrams. Our algorithm constructs policies incrementally, start...
Michael C. Horsch, David Poole
UAI
1998
14 years 3 days 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