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Cautious Propagation in Bayesian Networks

Artificial Intelligence 2013-02-21 v1

Abstract

Consider the situation where some evidence e has been entered to a Bayesian network. When performing conflict analysis, sensitivity analysis, or when answering questions like "What if the finding on X had been y instead of x?" you need probabilities P (e'| h), where e' is a subset of e, and h is a configuration of a (possibly empty) set of variables. Cautious propagation is a modification of HUGIN propagation into a Shafer-Shenoy-like architecture. It is less efficient than HUGIN propagation; however, it provides easy access to P (e'| h) for a great deal of relevant subsets e'.

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@article{arxiv.1302.4962,
  title  = {Cautious Propagation in Bayesian Networks},
  author = {Finn Verner Jensen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.4962},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1995)

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