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PCSI-labeled Directed Acyclic Graphs

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dc.date.accessioned 2014-05-06T05:44:49Z und
dc.date.accessioned 2017-10-24T12:21:29Z
dc.date.available 2014-05-06T05:44:49Z und
dc.date.available 2017-10-24T12:21:29Z
dc.date.issued 2014-05-06T05:44:49Z
dc.identifier.uri http://radr.hulib.helsinki.fi/handle/10138.1/3672 und
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10138.1/3672
dc.title PCSI-labeled Directed Acyclic Graphs en
ethesis.discipline Applied Mathematics en
ethesis.discipline Soveltava matematiikka fi
ethesis.discipline Tillämpad matematik sv
ethesis.discipline.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/2646f59d-c072-44e7-b1c1-4e4b8b798323
ethesis.department.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/61364eb4-647a-40e2-8539-11c5c0af8dc2
ethesis.department Institutionen för matematik och statistik sv
ethesis.department Department of Mathematics and Statistics en
ethesis.department Matematiikan ja tilastotieteen laitos fi
ethesis.faculty Matematisk-naturvetenskapliga fakulteten sv
ethesis.faculty Matemaattis-luonnontieteellinen tiedekunta fi
ethesis.faculty Faculty of Science en
ethesis.faculty.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/8d59209f-6614-4edd-9744-1ebdaf1d13ca
ethesis.university.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/50ae46d8-7ba9-4821-877c-c994c78b0d97
ethesis.university Helsingfors universitet sv
ethesis.university University of Helsinki en
ethesis.university Helsingin yliopisto fi
dct.creator Lintusaari, Jarno
dct.issued 2014
dct.language.ISO639-2 eng
dct.abstract This thesis proposes a generalization for the model class of labeled directed acyclic graphs (LDAGs) introduced in Pensar et al. (2013), which themselves are a generalization of ordinary Bayesian networks. LDAGs allow encoding of a more refined dependency structure compared to Bayesian networks with a single DAG augmented with labels. The labels correspond to context-specific independencies (CSIs) which must be present in every parameterization of an LDAG. The generalization of LDAGs developed in this thesis allows placement of partial context-specific independencies (PCSIs) into labels of an LDAG model, further increasing the space of encodable dependency structures. PCSIs themselves allow a set of random variables to be independent of another when restricted to a subset of their outcome space. The generalized model class is named PCSI-labeled directed acyclic graph (PLDAG). Several properties of PLDAGs are studied, including PCSI-equivalence of two distinct models, which corresponds to Markov-equivalence of ordinary DAGs. The efficient structure learning algorithm introduced for LDAGs is extended to learn PLDAG models. This algorithm uses a non-reversible Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) method for ordinary DAG structure learning combined with a greedy hill climbing approach. The performance of PLDAG learning is compared against LDAG and traditional DAG learning using three different measures: Kullback-Leibler divergence, number of free parameters in the model and the correctness of the learned DAG structure. The results show that PLDAGs further decreased the number of free parameters needed in the learned model compared to LDAGs yet maintaining the same level of performance with respect to Kullback-Leibler divergence. Also PLDAG and LDAG structure learning algorithms were able to learn the correct DAG structure with less data in traditional DAG structure learning task compared to the base MCMC algorithm. en
dct.language en
ethesis.language.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/languages/eng
ethesis.language English en
ethesis.language englanti fi
ethesis.language engelska sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu-avhandlingar sv
ethesis.thesistype pro gradu -tutkielmat fi
ethesis.thesistype master's thesis en
ethesis.thesistype.URI http://data.hulib.helsinki.fi/id/thesistypes/mastersthesis
dct.identifier.urn URN:NBN:fi-fe2017112251875
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