An Experimental Study of Prior Dependence in Bayesian Network Structure Learning
Abstract
The Bayesian Dirichlet equivalent uniform (BDeu) function is a popular score to evaluate the goodness of a Bayesian network structure given complete categorical data. Despite its interesting properties, such as likelihood equivalence, it does require a prior expressed via a user-defined parameter known as Equivalent Sample Size (ESS), which significantly affects the final structure. We study conditions to obtain prior independence in BDeu-based structure learning. We show in experiments that the amount of data needed to render the learning robust to different ESS values is prohibitively large, even in big data times.
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Correia et al. "An Experimental Study of Prior Dependence in Bayesian Network Structure Learning." Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications, 2019.Markdown
[Correia et al. "An Experimental Study of Prior Dependence in Bayesian Network Structure Learning." Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/isipta/2019/correia2019isipta-experimental/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{correia2019isipta-experimental,
title = {{An Experimental Study of Prior Dependence in Bayesian Network Structure Learning}},
author = {Correia, Alvaro Henrique Chaim and Campos, Cassio P. and Gaag, Linda C.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications},
year = {2019},
pages = {78-81},
volume = {103},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/isipta/2019/correia2019isipta-experimental/}
}