Title
Bisimulation-based Approximate Lifted Inference
Abstract
There has been a great deal of recent interest in methods for performing lifted inference; however, most of this work assumes that the first-order model is given as input to the system. Here, we describe lifted inference algorithms that determine symmetries and automatically lift the probabilistic model to speedup inference. In particular, we describe approximate lifted inference techniques that allow the user to trade off inference accuracy for computational efficiency by using a handful of tunable parameters, while keeping the error bounded. Our algorithms are closely related to the graph-theoretic concept of bisimulation. We report experiments on both synthetic and real data to show that in the presence of symmetries, run-times for inference can be improved significantly, with approximate lifted inference providing orders of magnitude speedup over ground inference.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
UAI '09 Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
probabilistic model,ground inference,inference algorithm,magnitude speedup,computational efficiency,speedup inference,inference accuracy,graph-theoretic concept,first-order model,inference technique
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Conference
abs/1205.2616
22
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.02
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Prithviraj Sen183738.24
Amol Deshpande24085258.89
Lise Getoor34365320.21