Re: [UAI] Required sample size for parameter and structure learning

From: Russ Greiner (greiner@cs.ualberta.ca)
Date: Wed Sep 27 2000 - 09:06:47 PDT

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    "Dr. Lian Wen Zhang" wrote:
    > Can someone point me to papers on required sample size for
    > parameter and structure learning in Bayesian networks?

    Stefano Monti 268-7019 writes:
    > @Article{dasgup97,
    > author = "Sanjoy Dasgupta",
    > title = "The Sample Complexity of Learning Fixed-Structure
    > {B}ayesian Networks",
    > journal = "Machine Learning",
    > year = 1997,
    > volume = 29,
    > number = 2,
    > annote = "Bayesian networks; PAC learning; sample complexity"
    > }
    >
    > @InProceedings{friyak96,
    > author = "Nir Friedman and Zohar Yakhini",
    > title = "On the Sample Complexity of Learning {B}ayesian Networks",
    > booktitle = "Proceedings of the 12th Conference of Uncertainty in AI",
    > year = 1996
    > }

    See also

    @InProceedings{Hoeffgen-COLT93,
      author = "Klaus-U. H{\"o}ffgen",
      title = "Learning and Robust Learning of Product Distributions",
      pages = "77--83",
      booktitle = "Proceedings of the 6th Annual Conference on
                     Computational Learning Theory",
      address = "Santa Cruz, CA, USA",
      month = jul,
      year = "1993",
      publisher = "ACM Press",
    }

    @InProceedings{LearnBN-UAI97,
      Author = "R. Greiner and A. Grove and D. Schuurmans",
      title = "Learning {Bayesian} Nets that Perform Well",
      booktitle = "Proceedings of the 13th Conference of Uncertainty in AI",
      Year = 1997,
     }

    (Proofs, etc, for the results in the LearnBN-UAI97 (will) appear in
      http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~greiner/BN-results.html#AccurateBN
    )

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