Variable elimination algorithm in Bayesian networks: An updated version

Author First name, Last name, Institution

Linda Smail, Zayed UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

AIP Conference Proceedings

Publication Date

10-9-2023

Abstract

Given a Bayesian network relative to a set I of discrete random variables, we are interested in computing the probability distribution Pr(S), where the target S is a subset of I. The general idea of the Variable Elimination algorithm is to manage the successions of summations on all random variables out of the target. We propose a variation of the Variable Elimination algorithm that will make intermediate computation written as conditional probabilities and not simple potentials. This has an advantage in storing the joint probability as a product of conditions probabilities thus less constraining.

ISSN

0094-7616

Publisher

AIP Publishing

Volume

2879

Issue

1

First Page

040013

Last Page

040013

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Indexed in Scopus

no

Open Access

no

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