An Empirical Analysis of Likelihood-Weighting Simulation on a Large, Multiply-Connected Belief Network

03/27/2013
by   Michael Shwe, et al.
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We analyzed the convergence properties of likelihood- weighting algorithms on a two-level, multiply connected, belief-network representation of the QMR knowledge base of internal medicine. Specifically, on two difficult diagnostic cases, we examined the effects of Markov blanket scoring, importance sampling, demonstrating that the Markov blanket scoring and self-importance sampling significantly improve the convergence of the simulation on our model.

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