Kybernetika 51 no. 4, 541-570, 2015

Marginalization in models generated by compositional expressions

Francesco M. MalvestutoDOI: 10.14736/kyb-2015-4-0541

Abstract:

In the framework of models generated by compositional expressions, we solve two topical marginalization problems (namely, the \emph{single-marginal problem} and the \emph{marginal-representation problem}) that were solved only for the special class of the so-called "canonical expressions". We also show that the two problems can be solved "from scratch" with preliminary symbolic computation.

Keywords:

marginalization, compositional expression, compositional model, syntax tree

Classification:

05C65, 05C85, 65C50, 60E99, 68T37

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