Elements of Graphical Models
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Arxiv:1606.02359V1 [Stat.ME] 7 Jun 2016
STRUCTURE LEARNING IN GRAPHICAL MODELING MATHIAS DRTON AND MARLOES H. MAATHUIS Abstract. A graphical model is a statistical model that is associated to a graph whose nodes correspond to variables of interest. The edges of the graph reflect allowed conditional dependencies among the variables. Graphical models admit computationally convenient fac- torization properties and have long been a valuable tool for tractable modeling of multivariate distributions. More recently, applications such as reconstructing gene regulatory networks from gene expression data have driven major advances in structure learning, that is, estimat- ing the graph underlying a model. We review some of these advances and discuss methods such as the graphical lasso and neighborhood selection for undirected graphical models (or Markov random fields), and the PC algorithm and score-based search methods for directed graphical models (or Bayesian networks). We further review extensions that account for effects of latent variables and heterogeneous data sources. 1. Introduction This article gives an overview of commonly used techniques for structure learning in graphical modeling. Structure learning is a model selection problem in which one estimates a graph that summarizes the dependence structure in a given data set. 1.1. What is a Graphical Model? A graphical model captures stochastic dependencies among a collection of random variables Xv, v 2 V (Lauritzen, 1996). Each model is associated to a graph G = (V; E), where the vertex set V indexes the variables and the edge set E imposes a set of conditional independencies. Specifically, Xv and Xw are required to be conditionally independent given XC := (Xu : u 2 C), denoted by Xv ?? Xw j XC , if every path between nodes v and w in G is suitably blocked by the nodes in C. -
Finding Optimal Tree Decompositions
MSc thesis Computer Science Finding Optimal Tree Decompositions Tuukka Korhonen June 4, 2020 Faculty of Science University of Helsinki Supervisor(s) Assoc. Prof. Matti J¨arvisalo,Dr. Jeremias Berg Examiner(s) Assoc. Prof. Matti J¨arvisalo,Dr. Jeremias Berg Contact information P. O. Box 68 (Pietari Kalmin katu 5) 00014 University of Helsinki,Finland Email address: [email protected].fi URL: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/ HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO – HELSINGFORS UNIVERSITET – UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI Tiedekunta — Fakultet — Faculty Koulutusohjelma — Utbildningsprogram — Study programme Faculty of Science Computer Science Tekij¨a— F¨orfattare— Author Tuukka Korhonen Ty¨onnimi — Arbetets titel — Title Finding Optimal Tree Decompositions Ohjaajat — Handledare — Supervisors Assoc. Prof. Matti J¨arvisalo, Dr. Jeremias Berg Ty¨onlaji — Arbetets art — Level Aika — Datum — Month and year Sivum¨a¨ar¨a— Sidoantal — Number of pages MSc thesis June 4, 2020 94 pages, 1 appendix page Tiivistelm¨a— Referat — Abstract The task of organizing a given graph into a structure called a tree decomposition is relevant in multiple areas of computer science. In particular, many NP-hard problems can be solved in polynomial time if a suitable tree decomposition of a graph describing the problem instance is given as a part of the input. This motivates the task of finding as good tree decompositions as possible, or ideally, optimal tree decompositions. This thesis is about finding optimal tree decompositions of graphs with respect to several notions of optimality. Each of the considered notions measures the quality of a tree decomposition in the context of an application. In particular, we consider a total of seven problems that are formulated as finding optimal tree decompositions: treewidth, minimum fill-in, generalized and fractional hypertreewidth, total table size, phylogenetic character compatibility, and treelength. -
Chapter 6 Inference with Tree-Clustering
Chapter 6 Inference with Tree-Clustering As noted in Chapters 3, 4, topological characterization of tractability in graphical models is centered on the graph parameter called induced-width or tree-width. In this chap- ter, we take variable elimination algorithms such as bucket-elimination one step further, showing that they are a restricted version of schemes that are based on the notion of tree-decompositions which is applicable across the whole spectrum of graphical models. These methods have received different names in different research areas, such as join-tree clustering, clique-tree clustering and hyper-tree decompositions. We will refer to these schemes by the umbrella name tree-clustering or tree-decomposition. The complexity of these methods is governed by the induced-width, the same parameter that controls the performance of bucket elimination. We will start by extending the bucket-elimination algorithm into an algorithms that process a special class of tree-decompositions, called bucket-trees, and will then move to the general notion of tree-decomposition. 6.1 Bucket-Tree Elimination The bucket-elimination algorithm, BE-bel, for belief updating computes the belief of the first node in the ordering, given all the evidence or just the probability of evidence. However, it is often desirable to answer the belief query for every variable in the network. A brute-force approach will require running BE-bel n times, each time with a different variable order. We will show next that this is unnecessary. By viewing bucket-elimination 103 104 CHAPTER 6. INFERENCE WITH TREE-CLUSTERING as message passing algorithm along a rooted bucket-tree, we can augment it with a second message passing from root to leaves which is equivalent to running the algorithm for each variable separately. -
Unifying Cluster-Tree Decompositions for Reasoning in Graphical Models∗
Unifying Cluster-Tree Decompositions for Reasoning in Graphical models¤ Kalev Kask¤, Rina Dechter¤, Javier Larrosa¤¤ and Avi Dechter¤¤¤ ¤Bren School of Information and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697-3425, USA ¤¤ Universitat Politcnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain ¤¤¤ Business school, California State University, Northridge, CA, USA April 7, 2005 Abstract The paper provides a unifying perspective of tree-decomposition algorithms appearing in various automated reasoning areas such as join-tree clustering for constraint-satisfaction and the clique-tree al- gorithm for probabilistic reasoning. Within this framework, we in- troduce a new algorithm, called bucket-tree elimination (BT E), that extends Bucket Elimination (BE) to trees, and show that it can pro- vide a speed-up of n over BE for various reasoning tasks. Time-space tradeo®s of tree-decomposition processing are analyzed. 1 Introduction This paper provides a unifying perspective of tree-decomposition algorithms that appear in a variety of automated reasoning areas. Its main contribution ¤This work was supported in part by NSF grant IIS-0086529 and by MURI ONR award N0014-00-1-0617 1 is bringing together, within a single coherent framework, seemingly di®erent approaches that have been developed over the years within a number of di®erent communities 1. The idea of embedding a database that consists of a collection of functions or relations in a tree structure and, subsequently, processing it e®ectively by a tree-processing algorithm, has been discovered and rediscovered in dif- ferent contexts. Database researchers observed, almost three decades ago, that relational database schemes that constitute join-trees enable e±cient query processing [22]. -
Graphical Models and Message Passing
Graphical Models and Message passing Yunshu Liu ASPITRG Research Group 2013-07-16 References: [1]. Steffen Lauritzen, Graphical Models, Oxford University Press, 1996 [2]. Michael I. Jordan, Graphical models, Statistical Science, Vol.19, No. 1. Feb., 2004 [3]. Christopher M. Bishop, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 2006 [4]. Daphne Koller and Nir Friedman, Probabilistic Graphical Models - Principles and Techniques, The MIT Press, 2009 [5].Kevin P. Murphy, Machine Learning - A Probabilistic Perspective, The MIT Press, 2012 Outline Preliminaries on Graphical Models Directed graphical model Undirected graphical model Directed graph and Undirected graph Message passing and sum-product algorithm Factor graphs Sum-product algorithms Junction tree algorithm Outline I Preliminaries on Graphical Models I Message passing and sum-product algorithm Preliminaries on Graphical Models Motivation: Curse of dimensionality I Matroid enumeration I Polyhedron computation I Entropic Region I Machine Learning: computing likelihoods, marginal probabilities ··· Graphical Models: Help capturing complex dependencies among random variables, building large-scale statistical models and designing efficient algorithms for Inference. Preliminaries on Graphical Models Definition of Graphical Models: A graphical model is a probabilistic model for which a graph denotes the conditional dependence structure between random variables. MIT : Accepted by MIT Stanford : Accepted by Stanford MIT Example: Suppose MIT and GPA Stanford accepted -
Graph Properties of DAG Associahedra and Related Polytopes
DEGREE PROJECT IN MATHEMATICS, SECOND CYCLE, 30 CREDITS STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN 2018 Graph properties of DAG associahedra and related polytopes JONAS BEDEROFF ERIKSSON KTH ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING SCIENCES Graph properties of DAG associahedra and related polytopes JONAS BEDEROFF ERIKSSON Degree Projects in Mathematics (30 ECTS credits) Degree Programme in Mathematics (120 credits) KTH Royal Institute of Technology year 2018 Supervisor at KTH: Liam Solus Examiner at KTH: Svante Linusson TRITA-SCI-GRU 2018:161 MAT-E 2018:25 Royal Institute of Technology School of Engineering Sciences KTH SCI SE-100 44 Stockholm, Sweden URL: www.kth.se/sci GRAPH PROPERTIES OF DAG ASSOCIAHEDRA AND RELATED POLYTOPES JONAS BEDEROFF ERIKSSON Sammanfattning. En riktad acyklisk graf kan betraktas som en representant för relatio- ner av betingat oberoende mellan stokastiska variabler. Ett grundläggande problem inom kausal inferens är, givet att vi får data från en sannolikhetsfördelning som uppfyller en mängd relationer av betingat oberoende, att hitta den underliggande graf som represen- terar dessa relationer. Den giriga SP-algoritmen strävar efter att hitta den underliggande grafen genom att traversera kanter på en polytop kallad DAG-associahedern. Därav spelar kantstrukturen hos DAG-associahedern en stor roll för vår förståelse för den giriga SP- algoritmens komplexitet. I den här uppsatsen studerar vi grafegenskaper hos kantgrafer av DAG-associahedern, relaterade polytoper och deras viktiga delgrafer. Exempel på grafe- genskaper som vi studerar är diameter, radie och center. Våra diameterresultat för DAG- associahedern ger upphov till en ny kausal inferensalgoritm med förbättrade teoretiska på- litlighetsgarantier och komplexitetsbegränsningar jämfört med den giriga SP-algoritmen. Abstract. A directed acyclic graph (DAG) can be thought of as encoding a set of condi- tional independence (CI) relations among random variables.