Variational bayes inference for logic-based probabilistic models on BDDs. Ishihata, M., Kameya, Y., & Sato, T. In volume 7207 LNAI, pages 189–203, 2012.
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Abduction is one of the basic logical inferences (deduction, induction and abduction) and derives the best explanations for our observation. Statistical abduction attempts to define a probability distribution over explanations and to evaluate them by their probabilities. Logic-based probabilistic models (LBPMs) have been developed as a way to combine probabilities and logic, and it enables us to perform statistical abduction. However non-deterministic knowledge like preference and frequency seems difficult to represent by logic. Bayesian inference can reflect such knowledge on a prior distribution, and variational Bayes (VB) is known as an approximation method for it. In this paper, we propose VB for logic-based probabilistic models and show that our proposed method is efficient in evaluating abductive explanations about failure in a logic circuit and a metabolic pathway. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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	title = {Variational bayes inference for logic-based probabilistic models on {BDDs}},
	volume = {7207 LNAI},
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	doi = {10.1007/978-3-642-31951-8_19},
	abstract = {Abduction is one of the basic logical inferences (deduction, induction and abduction) and derives the best explanations for our observation. Statistical abduction attempts to define a probability distribution over explanations and to evaluate them by their probabilities. Logic-based probabilistic models (LBPMs) have been developed as a way to combine probabilities and logic, and it enables us to perform statistical abduction. However non-deterministic knowledge like preference and frequency seems difficult to represent by logic. Bayesian inference can reflect such knowledge on a prior distribution, and variational Bayes (VB) is known as an approximation method for it. In this paper, we propose VB for logic-based probabilistic models and show that our proposed method is efficient in evaluating abductive explanations about failure in a logic circuit and a metabolic pathway. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.},
	author = {Ishihata, M. and Kameya, Y. and Sato, T.},
	year = {2012},
	keywords = {Approximation methods, Approximation theory, Bayesian inference, Bayesian networks, Inductive logic programming (ILP), Inference engines, Logic circuits, Logical inference, Metabolic pathways, Prior distribution, Probabilistic logics, Probabilistic models, Probability distributions, Variational bayes},
	pages = {189--203},
}

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