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An anytime scheme for bounding posterior beliefs
Bozhena Bidyuk and Rina Dechter |
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Abstract
This paper presents an any-time scheme for computing lower and upper bounds
on posterior marginals in Bayesian networks. The scheme draws from two previ-
ously proposed methods, bounded conditioning (Horvitz et al., 1989) and bounds
propagation algorithm (Leisink and Kappen, 2003). Following the principles of cut-
set conditioning (Pearl, 1988), our method enumerates a subset of cutset tuples
and applies exact reasoning in the network instances conditioned on those tuples.
The probability mass of the remaining tuples is bounded using a variant of bound
propagation. We show that our new scheme improves on the earlier schemes.
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