Liao, Zhenyu, Sharma, Charupriya, Cussens, James orcid.org/0000-0002-1363-2336 et al. (1 more author) (2019) Finding All Bayesian Network Structures within a Factor of Optimal. In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 33(01). Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence . AAAI Press , pp. 7892-7899.
Abstract
A Bayesian network is a widely used probabilistic graphical model with applications in knowledge discovery and prediction. Learning a Bayesian network (BN) from data can be cast as an optimization problem using the well-known score-andsearch approach. However, selecting a single model (i.e., the best scoring BN) can be misleading or may not achieve the best possible accuracy. An alternative to committing to a single model is to perform some form of Bayesian or frequentist model averaging, where the space of possible BNs is sampled or enumerated in some fashion. Unfortunately, existing approaches for model averaging either severely restrict the structure of the Bayesian network or have only been shown to scale to networks with fewer than 30 random variables. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to model averaging inspired by performance guarantees in approximation algorithms. Our approach has two primary advantages. First, our approach only considers credible models in that they are optimal or near-optimal in score. Second, our approach is more efficient and scales to significantly larger Bayesian networks than existing approaches.
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Item Type: | Proceedings Paper |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Computer Science (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2019 10:30 |
Last Modified: | 16 Oct 2024 11:01 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33017892 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | AAAI Press |
Series Name: | Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence |
Identification Number: | 10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33017892 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:140974 |