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Active Tuples-based Scheme for Bounding Posterior Beliefs
Bozhena Bidyuk, Rina Dechter and Emma Rollon |
Abstract
The paper presents a scheme for computing lower and upper bounds on the posterior
marginals in Bayesian networks with discrete variables. Its power lies in its ability to use
any available scheme that bounds the probability of evidence or posterior marginals and
enhance its performance in an anytime manner. The scheme uses the cutset conditioning
principle to tighten existing bounding schemes and to facilitate anytime behavior, utilizing
a fixed number of cutset tuples. The accuracy of the bounds improves as the number of
used cutset tuples increases and so does the computation time. We demonstrate empirically
the value of our scheme for bounding posterior marginals and probability of evidence using
a variant of the bound propagation algorithm as a plug-in scheme.
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