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Constraint handling using tournament selection: abductive inference in partly deterministic bayesian networks.

Severino F Galán1, Ole J Mengshoel

  • 1Department of Artificial Intelligence, UNED, Madrid, Spain seve@dia.uned.es

Evolutionary Computation
|February 12, 2009
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This study introduces an improved evolutionary approach for Bayesian networks (BNs) to handle constraints during abductive inference. The new method significantly enhances performance, especially when BNs have many zero probabilities.

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Area of Science:

  • Evolutionary Computation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Probabilistic Reasoning

Background:

  • Bayesian networks (BNs) model uncertain knowledge using probability.
  • Abductive inference in BNs seeks the most probable explanation for evidence.
  • Exact abductive inference is computationally expensive (NP-hard).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To adapt tournament selection for improved constraint processing in BN abductive inference.
  • To address performance degradation in traditional evolutionary approaches with increasing BN constraints.
  • To present and analyze a novel evolutionary method for abductive inference in BNs.

Main Methods:

  • Framing abductive inference as a constraint optimization problem.
  • Adapting tournament selection within an evolutionary computation framework.
  • Comparing a new evolutionary approach against traditional methods via experiments.

Main Results:

  • The novel evolutionary approach significantly improves performance in BNs with numerous zero probabilities.
  • The new method dramatically enhances processing when conditional probability tables have many zeros.
  • Experimental results show the new approach substantially outperforms the traditional evolutionary method.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed evolutionary approach effectively handles constraints in Bayesian network abductive inference.
  • This method offers a significant performance improvement over traditional evolutionary techniques for BNs with sparse probability tables.
  • The constraint optimization perspective is key to the enhanced performance.