1ArtificialIntelligence:BayesianNetworks2GraphicalModels•Ifnoassumptionofindependenceismade,thenanexponentialnumberofparametersmustbeestimatedforsoundprobabilisticinference
•Norealisticamountoftrainingdataissufficienttoestimatesomanyparameters
•Ifablanketassumptionofconditionalindependenceismade,efficienttrainingandinferenceispossible,butsuchastrongassumptionisrarelywarranted
•Graphicalmodelsusedirectedorundirectedgraphsoverasetofrandomvariablestoexplicitlyspecifyvariabledependenciesandallowforlessrestrictiveindependenceassumptionswhilelimitingthenumberofparametersthatmustbeestimated
–BayesianNetworks:Directedacyclicgraphsthatindicatecausalstructure
–MarkovNetworks:Undirectedgraphsthatcapturegeneraldependencies
3BayesianNetworks•DirectedAcyclicGraph(DAG)–Nodesarerandomvariables–Edgesindica