New D-Separation Identification Results for Learning Continuous Latent Variable Models

Abstract

Learning the structure of graphical models is an important task, but one of considerable difficulty when latent variables are involved. Because conditional independences using hidden variables cannot be directly observed, one has to rely on alternative methods to identify the d-separations that define the graphical structure. This paper describes new distribution-free techniques for identifying d-separations in continuous latent variable models when non-linear dependencies are allowed among hidden variables.

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Text

de Andrade e Silva and Scheines. "New D-Separation Identification Results for Learning Continuous Latent Variable Models." International Conference on Machine Learning, 2005. doi:10.1145/1102351.1102453

Markdown

[de Andrade e Silva and Scheines. "New D-Separation Identification Results for Learning Continuous Latent Variable Models." International Conference on Machine Learning, 2005.](https://mlanthology.org/icml/2005/deandradeesilva2005icml-new/) doi:10.1145/1102351.1102453

BibTeX

@inproceedings{deandradeesilva2005icml-new,
  title     = {{New D-Separation Identification Results for Learning Continuous Latent Variable Models}},
  author    = {de Andrade e Silva, Ricardo Bezerra and Scheines, Richard},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Machine Learning},
  year      = {2005},
  pages     = {808-815},
  doi       = {10.1145/1102351.1102453},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/icml/2005/deandradeesilva2005icml-new/}
}