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AND/OR Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams (AOMDDs) forWeighted Graphical Models
Robert Mateescu and Rina Dechter |
Abstract
Compiling graphical models has recently been
under intense investigation, especially for probabilistic
modeling and processing. We present
here a novel data structure for compiling
weighted graphical models (in particular, probabilistic
models), called AND/OR Multi-Valued
Decision Diagram (AOMDD). This is a generalization
of our previous work on constraint networks,
to weighted models. The AOMDD is
based on the frameworks of AND/OR search
spaces for graphical models, and Ordered Binary
Decision Diagrams (OBDD). The AOMDD is a
canonical representation of a graphical model,
and its size and compilation time are bounded exponentially
by the treewidth of the graph, rather
than pathwidth as is known for OBDDs. We discuss
a Variable Elimination schedule for compilation,
and present the general APPLY algorithm
that combines two weighted AOMDDs, and also
present a search based method for compilation
method. The preliminary experimental evaluation
is quite encouraging, showing the potential
of the AOMDD data structure.
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