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Testing Bayesian Networks

Clément L. Canonne, Ilias Diakonikolas, Daniel M. Kane, Alistair Stewart

چکیده

This work initiates a systematic investigation of testing high-dimensional structured distributions by focusing on testing Bayesian networks – the prototypical family of directed graphical models. A Bayesian network is defined by a directed acyclic graph, where we associate a random variable with each node. The value at any particular node is conditionally independent of all the other nondescendant nodes once its parents are fixed. Specifically, we study the properties of identity testing and closeness testing of Bayesian networks. Our main contribution is the first non-trivial efficient testing algorithms for these problems and corresponding information-theoretic lower bounds. For a wide range of parameter settings, our testing algorithms have sample complexity sublinear in the dimension and are sample-optimal, up to constant factors.

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