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R258 | |
Counting the Optimal Solutions in Graphical Models
Radu Marinescu and Rina Dechter.
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Abstract
We introduce #opt, a new inference task for graphical models which calls for
counting the number of optimal solutions of the model. We describe a novel
variable elimination based approach for solving this task, as well as a depth-first
branch and bound algorithm that traverses the AND/OR search space of the model.
The key feature of the proposed algorithms is that their complexity is exponential
in the induced width of the model only. It does not depend on the actual number of
optimal solutions. Our empirical evaluation on various benchmarks demonstrates
the effectiveness of the proposed algorithms compared with existing depth-first and
best-first search based approaches that enumerate explicitly the optimal solutions.
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