Dealing with soft evidence in credal networks
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Abstract. The formalism of credal networks can be used to represent imprecision in multivariate probabilistic models. Currently, the algorithms for inference with credal nets allow to compute posterior probability intervals given specific evidence. However, they do not deal with soft evidence. This paper presents an approach to integrate soft evidence in credal networks. The proposal is to convert the soft evidence into constraints that are appended to a multilinear program to perform inferences.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012