Learning Bayesian Networks Under Sparsity Constraints: A Parameterized Complexity Analysis
Learning Bayesian Networks Under Sparsity Constraints: A Parameterized Complexity Analysis
Niels Grüttemeier, Christian Komusiewicz
Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 4245-4251.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/586
We study the problem of learning the structure of an optimal Bayesian network when additional structural constraints are posed on the network or on its moralized graph. More precisely, we consider the constraint that the moralized graph can be transformed to a graph from a sparse graph class Π by at most k vertex deletions. We show that for Π being the graphs with maximum degree 1, an optimal network can be computed in polynomial time when k is constant, extending previous work that gave an algorithm with such a running time for Π being the class of edgeless graphs [Korhonen & Parviainen, NIPS 2015]. We then show that further extensions or improvements are presumably impossible. For example, we show that when Π is the set of graphs in which each component has size at most three, then learning an optimal network is NP-hard even if k=0. Finally, we show that learning an optimal network with at most k edges in the moralized graph presumably is not fixed-parameter tractable with respect to k and that, in contrast, computing an optimal network with at most k arcs can be computed is fixed-parameter tractable in k.
Keywords:
Uncertainty in AI: Bayesian Networks
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