Discovering the Markov network structure
Information Theory
2013-07-03 v1 Machine Learning
math.IT
Abstract
In this paper a new proof is given for the supermodularity of information content. Using the decomposability of the information content an algorithm is given for discovering the Markov network graph structure endowed by the pairwise Markov property of a given probability distribution. A discrete probability distribution is given for which the equivalence of Hammersley-Clifford theorem is fulfilled although some of the possible vector realizations are taken on with zero probability. Our algorithm for discovering the pairwise Markov network is illustrated on this example, too.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1307.0643,
title = {Discovering the Markov network structure},
author = {Edith Kovács and Tamás Szántai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0643},
year = {2013}
}
Comments
12 pages, 3 figures