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Deciding Morality of Graphs is NP-complete

Artificial Intelligence 2013-03-08 v1

Abstract

In order to find a causal explanation for data presented in the form of covariance and concentration matrices it is necessary to decide if the graph formed by such associations is a projection of a directed acyclic graph (dag). We show that the general problem of deciding whether such a dag exists is NP-complete.

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@article{arxiv.1303.1501,
  title  = {Deciding Morality of Graphs is NP-complete},
  author = {Tom S. Verma and Judea Pearl},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.1501},
  year   = {2013}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1993)

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