Tech Report CS-90-14
On Irrelevance and Partial Assignments to Belief Networks
Solomon E. Shimony
October 1990
Abstract:
We evaluate current methods for finding best consistent explanations. The only known general probabilistic scheme for finding a consistent explanation, that of complete MAPs, suffers from the over-specification problem. We propose a partial solution by applying a probabilistic generalization to logical irrelevance. We evaluate const-based abduction in a probabilistic context by providing a probabilistic semantics for it in the case of partial assignments.
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