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Finding a Path is Harder than Finding a Tree

Artificial Intelligence 2011-06-10 v1

Abstract

I consider the problem of learning an optimal path graphical model from data and show the problem to be NP-hard for the maximum likelihood and minimum description length approaches and a Bayesian approach. This hardness result holds despite the fact that the problem is a restriction of the polynomially solvable problem of finding the optimal tree graphical model.

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@article{arxiv.1106.1799,
  title  = {Finding a Path is Harder than Finding a Tree},
  author = {C. Meek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.1799},
  year   = {2011}
}
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