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An Efficient and Scalable Algorithm for Local Bayesian Network Structure Discovery

Authors : Sérgio Rodrigues de Morais, Alex Aussem

Published in: Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

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We present an efficient and scalable constraint-based algorithm, called Hybrid Parents and Children (HPC), to learn the parents and children of a target variable in a Bayesian network. Finding those variables is an important first step in many applications including Bayesian network structure learning, dimensionality reduction and feature selection. The algorithm combines ideas from incremental and divide-and-conquer methods in a principled and effective way, while still being sound in the sample limit. Extensive empirical experiments are provided on public synthetic and real-world data sets of various sample sizes. The most noteworthy feature of HPC is its ability to handle large neighborhoods contrary to current CB algorithm proposals. The number of calls to the statistical test, en hence the run-time, is empirically on the order

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Metadata
Title
An Efficient and Scalable Algorithm for Local Bayesian Network Structure Discovery
Authors
Sérgio Rodrigues de Morais
Alex Aussem
Copyright Year
2010
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15939-8_11

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