Estimating Dependency Structure as a Hidden Variable

  • Authors:
  • Marina Meila;Michael I. Jordan;Quaid Morris

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Estimating Dependency Structure as a Hidden Variable
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper introduces a probability model, the mixture of trees that can account for sparse, dynamically changing dependence relationships. We present a family of efficient algorithms that use EMand the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm to find the ML and MAP mixtureof trees for a variety of priors, including the Dirichlet and the MDL priors.