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Poster

Tractable Uncertainty for Structure Learning

Benjie Wang · Matthew Wicker · Marta Kwiatkowska

Hall E #722

Keywords: [ PM: Graphical Models ] [ PM: Bayesian Models and Methods ] [ MISC: Causality ] [ PM: Structure Learning ]


Abstract:

Bayesian structure learning allows one to capture uncertainty over the causal directed acyclic graph (DAG) responsible for generating given data. In this work, we present Tractable Uncertainty for STructure learning (TRUST), a framework for approximate posterior inference that relies on probabilistic circuits as a representation of our posterior belief. In contrast to sample-based posterior approximations, our representation can capture a much richer space of DAGs, while being able to tractably answer a range of useful inference queries. We empirically demonstrate how probabilistic circuits can be used to as an augmented representation for structure learning methods, leading to improvement in both the quality of inferred structures and posterior uncertainty. Experimental results also demonstrate the improved representational capacity of TRUST, outperforming competing methods on conditional query answering.

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