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Parallel Bayesian Network Structure Learning
Tian Gao · Dennis Wei

Fri Jul 13 01:00 AM -- 01:10 AM (PDT) @ A4
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Recent advances in Bayesian Network (BN) structure learning have focused on local-to-global learning, where the graph structure is learned via one local subgraph at a time. As a natural progression, we investigate parallel learning of BN structures via multiple learning agents simultaneously, where each agent learns one local subgraph at a time. We find that parallel learning can reduce the number of subgraphs requiring structure learning by storing previously queried results and communicating (even partial) results among agents. More specifically, by using novel rules on query subset and superset inference, many subgraph structures can be inferred without learning. We provide a sound and complete parallel structure learning (PSL) algorithm, and demonstrate its improved efficiency over state-of-the-art single-thread learning algorithms.

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Tian Gao (IBM Research)

Tian is currently a research staff member in IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. His research interests include machine learning, graphical models, causal discovery, reasoning, and applications.

Dennis Wei (IBM Research)

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