Optimal junction trees

  • Authors:
  • Finn V. Jensen;Frank Jensen

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • UAI'94 Proceedings of the Tenth international conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

The paper deals with optimality issues in connection with updating beliefs in networks. We address two processes: triangulation and construction of junction trees. In the first part, we give a simple algorithm for constructing an optimal junction tree from a triangulated network. In the second part, we argue that any exact method based on local calcuIations must either be less efficient than the junction tree method, or it has an optimality problem equivalent to that of triangulation.