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The Tsetlin Machine (TM) is a novel alternative to deep neural networks (DNNs). Unlike DNNs, which rely on multi-path arithmetic operations, a TM learns propositional logic patterns from data literals using Tsetlin automata. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Shengyu Duan , Rishad Shafik , Alex Yakovlev

This paper introduces an interpretable contextual bandit algorithm using Tsetlin Machines, which solves complex pattern recognition tasks using propositional logic. The proposed bandit learning algorithm relies on straightforward bit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Raihan Seraj , Jivitesh Sharma , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

Probabilistic circuits (PCs) are a prominent representation of probability distributions with tractable inference. While parameter learning in PCs is rigorously studied, structure learning is often more based on heuristics than on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Yang Yang , Gennaro Gala , Robert Peharz

There is a need for machine learning models to evolve in unsupervised circumstances. New classifications may be introduced, unexpected faults may occur, or the initial dataset may be small compared to the data-points presented to the system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Samuel Prescott , Adrian Wheeldon , Rishad Shafik , Tousif Rahman , Alex Yakovlev , Ole-Christoffer Granmo

Max-linear Bayesian networks (MLBNs) are a relatively recent class of structural equation models which arise when the random variables involved have heavy-tailed distributions. Unlike most directed graphical models, MLBNs are typically not…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-08-20 Carlos Améndola , Benjamin Hollering , Francesco Nowell

Causal Structure Learning (CSL), also referred to as causal discovery, amounts to extracting causal relations among variables in data. CSL enables the estimation of causal effects from observational data alone, avoiding the need to perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Fabrizio Russo , Francesca Toni

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have obtained astounding successes for important pattern recognition tasks, but they suffer from high computational complexity and the lack of interpretability. The recent Tsetlin Machine (TM) attempts…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Sondre Glimsdal , Lei Jiao , Morten Goodwin , Christian W. Omlin , Geir Thore Berge

Learning a Bayesian network structure from data is an NP-hard problem and thus exact algorithms are feasible only for small data sets. Therefore, network structures for larger networks are usually learned with various heuristics. Another…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Teppo Niinimaki , Pekka Parviainen

In recent years there has been a flurry of works on learning Bayesian networks from data. One of the hard problems in this area is how to effectively learn the structure of a belief network from incomplete data- that is, in the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Nir Friedman

Feature Selection (FS) is crucial for improving model interpretability, reducing complexity, and sometimes for enhancing accuracy. The recently introduced Tsetlin machine (TM) offers interpretable clause-based learning, but lacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Vojtech Halenka , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Lei Jiao , Per-Arne Andersen

In Bayesian Network Structure Learning (BNSL), one is given a variable set and parent scores for each variable and aims to compute a DAG, called Bayesian network, that maximizes the sum of parent scores, possibly under some structural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Niels Grüttemeier , Christian Komusiewicz , Nils Morawietz

We consider the task of estimating a high-dimensional directed acyclic graph, given observations from a linear structural equation model with arbitrary noise distribution. By exploiting properties of common random graphs, we develop a new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-12-30 Arjun Sondhi , Ali Shojaie

The problem of learning the structure of Bayesian networks from complete discrete data with a limit on parent set size is considered. Learning is cast explicitly as an optimisation problem where the goal is to find a BN structure which…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-02-20 James Cussens

One of the basic tasks for Bayesian networks (BNs) is that of learning a network structure from data. The BN-learning problem is NP-hard, so the standard solution is heuristic search. Many approaches have been proposed for this task, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-09 Marc Teyssier , Daphne Koller

The Tsetlin Machine (TM) has gained significant attention in Machine Learning (ML). By employing logical fundamentals, it facilitates pattern learning and representation, offering an alternative approach for developing comprehensible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Ahmed K. Kadhim , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , Lei Jiao , Rishad Shafik

Using a Bayesian network to analyze the causal relationship between nodes is a hot spot. The existing network learning algorithms are mainly constraint-based and score-based network generation methods. The constraint-based method is mainly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Baokui Mou

Bayesian networks are widely used probabilistic graphical models, whose structure is hard to learn starting from the generated data. O'Gorman et al. have proposed an algorithm to encode this task, i.e., the Bayesian network structure…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Enrico Zardini , Massimo Rizzoli , Sebastiano Dissegna , Enrico Blanzieri , Davide Pastorello

The Tsetlin Machine (TM) is a novel machine learning algorithm with several distinct properties, including transparent inference and learning using hardware-near building blocks. Although numerous papers explore the TM empirically, many of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-08 Lei Jiao , Xuan Zhang , Ole-Christoffer Granmo , K. Darshana Abeyrathna

The use of Bayesian methods in large-scale data settings is attractive because of the rich hierarchical models, uncertainty quantification, and prior specification they provide. Standard Bayesian inference algorithms are computationally…

Computation · Statistics 2017-02-07 Jonathan H. Huggins , Trevor Campbell , Tamara Broderick

The PC algorithm is the state-of-the-art algorithm for causal structure discovery on observational data. It can be computationally expensive in the worst case due to the conditional independence tests are performed in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Kai Zhang , Chao Tian , Kun Zhang , Todd Johnson , Xiaoqian Jiang