Scalable Parallel Implementation of Exact Inference in Bayesian Networks

  • Authors:
  • Vasanth Krishna Namasivayam;Viktor K. Prasanna

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA;University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICPADS '06 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We present a scalable parallel implementation for exact inference in Bayesian Networks. We explore two levels of parallelization: top level parallelization which uses pointer jumping to stride across nodes; and node level parallelization which parallelizes the node. We have implemented the algorithm using MPI and OpenMP. We consider three different types of input junction trees: linear junction trees, balanced trees and random junction trees, and obtained speedups of 203, 181 and 190 respectively over 256 processors.