Tractability through Exchangeability: A New Perspective on Efficient Probabilistic Inference

Authors: Mathias Niepert, Guy Van den Broeck

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Research Type Theoretical We develop a theory of finite exchangeability and its relation to tractable probabilistic inference. The theory is complementary to that of independence and conditional independence. We show that tractable inference in probabilistic models with high treewidth and millions of variables can be explained with the notion of finite (partial) exchangeability. We also show that existing lifted inference algorithms implicitly utilize a combination of conditional independence and partial exchangeability.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Mathias Niepert Computer Science and Engineering University of Washington, Seattle mniepert@cs.washington.edu Guy Van den Broeck Computer Science Department University of California, Los Angeles guyvdb@cs.ucla.edu Guy Van den Broeck is also at KU Leuven, Belgium.
Pseudocode No The paper does not contain any pseudocode or clearly labeled algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper does not contain any statements about releasing code or links to source code repositories.
Open Datasets No The paper describes theoretical concepts and case studies using Markov Logic Networks, but it does not mention specific datasets used for training or evaluation, nor does it provide access information for any dataset.
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Experiment Setup No This paper is theoretical and does not describe an experimental setup with hyperparameters or training settings.