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Computing Upper and Lower Bounds on Likelihoods in Intractable Networks

Artificial Intelligence 2013-02-18 v1

Abstract

We present deterministic techniques for computing upper and lower bounds on marginal probabilities in sigmoid and noisy-OR networks. These techniques become useful when the size of the network (or clique size) precludes exact computations. We illustrate the tightness of the bounds by numerical experiments.

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@article{arxiv.1302.3586,
  title  = {Computing Upper and Lower Bounds on Likelihoods in Intractable Networks},
  author = {Tommi S. Jaakkola and Michael I. Jordan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1302.3586},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Twelfth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1996)

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