We derive qualitative relationships about the informationalrelevance of variables in graphical decision models based on a consideration of the topology of the models. Speci cally,...
Developing a large belief network, like any large system, requires systems engineering to manage the design and construction process. We propose that network engineering follow a ...
This paper presents a Bayesian approach to learning the connectivity structure of a group of neurons from data on configuration frequencies. A major objective of the research is t...
Inference algorithms for arbitrary belief networks are impractical for large, complex belief networks. Inference algorithms for specialized classes of belief networks have been sh...
Recent research has found that diagnostic performance with Bayesian belief networks is often surprisingly insensitive to imprecision in the numerical probabilities. For example, t...
Max Henrion, Malcolm Pradhan, Brendan Del Favero, ...
We extend the Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC), an asymptotic approximation for the marginal likelihood, to Bayesian networks with hidden variables. This approximation can be ...
The study of belief change has been an active area in philosophy and AI. In recent years, two special cases of belief change, belief revision and belief update, have been studied ...
In this paper we examine a novel addition to the known methods for learning Bayesian networks from data that improves the quality of the learned networks. Our approach explicitly ...
Many algorithms for processing probabilistic networks are dependent on the topological properties of the problem's structure. Such algorithmse.g., clustering, conditioning ar...