Directed Cycles in Belief Networks

2013/03/27 by Wilson X. Wen, Wen, Wilson X.
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #cs.AI

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1304.1534

Appears in Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI1989)

arxiv created 2013/03/27 · arxiv updated 2013/04/08

Abstract

The most difficult task in probabilistic reasoning may be handling directed cycles in belief networks. To the best knowledge of this author, there is no serious discussion of this problem at all in the literature of probabilistic reasoning so far.

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