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Fast Fourier Transform Reductions for Bayesian Network Inference
Vincent Hsiao, Dana Nau, and Rina Dechter.
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Abstract
Bayesian Networks are useful for analyzing
the properties of systems with large populations of interacting agents (e.g., in social
modeling applications and distributed service
applications). These networks typically have
large functions (CPTs), making exact inference intractable. However, often these models have additive symmetry. In this paper
we show how summation-based CPTs, especially in the presence of symmetry, can be
computed efficiently through the usage of the
Fast Fourier Transform (FFT).
In particular, we propose an efficient method
using the FFT for reducing the size of Conditional Probability Tables (CPTs) in Bayesian
Networks with summation-based causal independence (CI). We show how to apply it
directly towards the acceleration of Bucket
Elimination, and we subsequently provide experimental results demonstrating the computational speedup provided by our method.
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