Entropy and Belief Networks
Artificial Intelligence
2013-03-25 v1
Abstract
The product expansion of conditional probabilities for belief nets is not maximum entropy. This appears to deny a desirable kind of assurance for the model. However, a kind of guarantee that is almost as strong as maximum entropy can be derived. Surprisingly, a variant model also exhibits the guarantee, and for many cases obtains a higher performance score than the product expansion.
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@article{arxiv.1303.5398,
title = {Entropy and Belief Networks},
author = {Norman C. Dalkey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1303.5398},
year = {2013}
}
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Appears in Proceedings of the Eighth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1992)