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Answering Hindsight Queries with Lifted Dynamic Junction Trees

Artificial Intelligence 2018-07-05 v1

Abstract

The lifted dynamic junction tree algorithm (LDJT) efficiently answers filtering and prediction queries for probabilistic relational temporal models by building and then reusing a first-order cluster representation of a knowledge base for multiple queries and time steps. We extend LDJT to (i) solve the smoothing inference problem to answer hindsight queries by introducing an efficient backward pass and (ii) discuss different options to instantiate a first-order cluster representation during a backward pass. Further, our relational forward backward algorithm makes hindsight queries to the very beginning feasible. LDJT answers multiple temporal queries faster than the static lifted junction tree algorithm on an unrolled model, which performs smoothing during message passing.

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@article{arxiv.1807.01586,
  title  = {Answering Hindsight Queries with Lifted Dynamic Junction Trees},
  author = {Marcel Gehrke and Tanya Braun and Ralf Möller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01586},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Accepted at the Eighth International Workshop on Statistical Relational AI. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1807.00744

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