A survey of Bayesian Network structure learning

NK Kitson, AC Constantinou, Z Guo, Y Liu… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Bayesian Networks (BNs) have become increasingly popular over the last few
decades as a tool for reasoning under uncertainty in fields as diverse as medicine, biology …

[HTML][HTML] Large-scale empirical validation of Bayesian Network structure learning algorithms with noisy data

AC Constantinou, Y Liu, K Chobtham, Z Guo… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Numerous Bayesian Network (BN) structure learning algorithms have been
proposed in the literature over the past few decades. Each publication makes an empirical …

[HTML][HTML] Effective and efficient structure learning with pruning and model averaging strategies

AC Constantinou, Y Liu, NK Kitson, K Chobtham… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Learning the structure of a Bayesian Network (BN) with score-based solutions involves
exploring the search space of possible graphs and moving towards the graph that …

Hard and soft EM in Bayesian network learning from incomplete data

A Ruggieri, F Stranieri, F Stella, M Scutari - Algorithms, 2020 - mdpi.com
Incomplete data are a common feature in many domains, from clinical trials to industrial
applications. Bayesian networks (BNs) are often used in these domains because of their …

Tuning structure learning algorithms with out-of-sample and resampling strategies

K Chobtham, AC Constantinou - Knowledge and Information Systems, 2024 - Springer
One of the challenges practitioners face when applying structure learning algorithms to their
data involves determining a set of hyperparameters; otherwise, a set of hyperparameter …

[PDF][PDF] Approximate Inference in Logical Credal Networks.

R Marinescu, H Qian, AG Gray, D Bhattacharjya… - IJCAI, 2023 - ijcai.org
Abstract Logical Credal Networks or LCNs is a recent probabilistic logic designed for
effective aggregation and reasoning over multiple sources of imprecise knowledge. An LCN …

Benchpress: A scalable and versatile workflow for benchmarking structure learning algorithms

FL Rios, G Moffa, J Kuipers - arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.03863, 2021 - arxiv.org
Describing the relationship between the variables in a study domain and modelling the data
generating mechanism is a fundamental problem in many empirical sciences. Probabilistic …

Hybrid Bayesian network discovery with latent variables by scoring multiple interventions

K Chobtham, AC Constantinou, NK Kitson - Data Mining and Knowledge …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract In Bayesian Networks (BNs), the direction of edges is crucial for causal reasoning
and inference. However, Markov equivalence class considerations mean it is not always …

The impact of variable ordering on Bayesian Network Structure Learning

NK Kitson, AC Constantinou - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Causal Bayesian Networks (CBNs) provide an important tool for reasoning under
uncertainty with potential application to many complex causal systems. Structure learning …

Discovery and density estimation of latent confounders in Bayesian networks with evidence lower bound

K Chobtham, AC Constantinou - … on Probabilistic Graphical …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Discovering and parameterising latent confounders represent important and challenging
problems in causal structure learning and density estimation respectively. In this paper, we …