An Exact Approach to Learning Probabilistic Relational Model

Nourhene Ettouzi, Philippe Leray, Montassar Ben Messaoud
Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models, PMLR 52:171-182, 2016.

Abstract

Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) offer a popular framework including a variety of statistical formalisms, such as Bayesian networks (BNs). These latter are able to depict real-world situations with high degree of uncertainty. Due to their power and flexibility, several extensions were proposed, ensuring thereby the suitability of their use. Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs) extend BNs to work with relational databases rather than propositional data. Their construction represents an active area since it remains the most complicated issue. Only few works have been proposed in this direction, and most of them don’t guarantee an optimal identification of their dependency structure. In this paper we intend to propose an approach that ensures returning an optimal PRM structure. It is inspired from a BN method whose performance was already proven.

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@InProceedings{pmlr-v52-ettouzi16, title = {An Exact Approach to Learning Probabilistic Relational Model}, author = {Ettouzi, Nourhene and Leray, Philippe and Ben Messaoud, Montassar}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models}, pages = {171--182}, year = {2016}, editor = {Antonucci, Alessandro and Corani, Giorgio and Campos}, Cassio Polpo}, volume = {52}, series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research}, address = {Lugano, Switzerland}, month = {06--09 Sep}, publisher = {PMLR}, pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v52/ettouzi16.pdf}, url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v52/ettouzi16.html}, abstract = {Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) offer a popular framework including a variety of statistical formalisms, such as Bayesian networks (BNs). These latter are able to depict real-world situations with high degree of uncertainty. Due to their power and flexibility, several extensions were proposed, ensuring thereby the suitability of their use. Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs) extend BNs to work with relational databases rather than propositional data. Their construction represents an active area since it remains the most complicated issue. Only few works have been proposed in this direction, and most of them don’t guarantee an optimal identification of their dependency structure. In this paper we intend to propose an approach that ensures returning an optimal PRM structure. It is inspired from a BN method whose performance was already proven.} }
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TY - CPAPER TI - An Exact Approach to Learning Probabilistic Relational Model AU - Nourhene Ettouzi AU - Philippe Leray AU - Montassar Ben Messaoud BT - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models DA - 2016/08/15 ED - Alessandro Antonucci ED - Giorgio Corani ED - Cassio Polpo Campos} ID - pmlr-v52-ettouzi16 PB - PMLR DP - Proceedings of Machine Learning Research VL - 52 SP - 171 EP - 182 L1 - http://proceedings.mlr.press/v52/ettouzi16.pdf UR - https://proceedings.mlr.press/v52/ettouzi16.html AB - Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) offer a popular framework including a variety of statistical formalisms, such as Bayesian networks (BNs). These latter are able to depict real-world situations with high degree of uncertainty. Due to their power and flexibility, several extensions were proposed, ensuring thereby the suitability of their use. Probabilistic Relational Models (PRMs) extend BNs to work with relational databases rather than propositional data. Their construction represents an active area since it remains the most complicated issue. Only few works have been proposed in this direction, and most of them don’t guarantee an optimal identification of their dependency structure. In this paper we intend to propose an approach that ensures returning an optimal PRM structure. It is inspired from a BN method whose performance was already proven. ER -
APA
Ettouzi, N., Leray, P. & Ben Messaoud, M.. (2016). An Exact Approach to Learning Probabilistic Relational Model. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Probabilistic Graphical Models, in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 52:171-182 Available from https://proceedings.mlr.press/v52/ettouzi16.html.

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