A recurrent network approach to MAP explanation

Autor: L.R. Medsker, C.M. Bahig, Ashraf M. Abdelbar
Rok vydání: 2003
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the 2002 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks. IJCNN'02 (Cat. No.02CH37290).
DOI: 10.1109/ijcnn.2002.1007536
Popis: Bayesian belief networks (BBNs) are an increasingly popular knowledge representation for reasoning under (probabilistic) uncertainty. An important problem in BBNs is finding the best, i.e. the most probable, explanation for a given set of observations, called the evidence. In this paper, we present a recurrent neural network approach to the maximum a-posteriori (MAP) problem. We measure the performance of our approach on more than 300 pairs of belief networks and evidence sets: a combination of 23 different networks and between 10 and 21 evidence sets on each network. We find that, on average, our neural network is able to return solutions within 95% of the probability of the optimal solution.
Databáze: OpenAIRE