Stochastic Anytime Search for Bounding Marginal MAP

Stochastic Anytime Search for Bounding Marginal MAP

Radu Marinescu, Rina Dechter, Alexander Ihler

Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main track. Pages 5074-5081. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2018/704

The Marginal MAP inference task is known to be extremely hard particularly because the evaluation of each complete MAP assignment involves an exact likelihood computation (a combinatorial sum). For this reason, most recent state-of-the-art solvers that focus on computing anytime upper and lower bounds on the optimal value are limited to solving instances with tractable conditioned summation subproblems. In this paper, we develop new search-based bounding schemes for Marginal MAP that produce anytime upper and lower bounds without performing exact likelihood computations. The empirical evaluation demonstrates the effectiveness of our new methods against the current best-performing search-based bounds.
Keywords:
Uncertainty in AI: Approximate Probabilistic Inference
Uncertainty in AI: Bayesian Networks
Uncertainty in AI: Graphical Models
Heuristic Search and Game Playing: Heuristic Search
Heuristic Search and Game Playing: Combinatorial Search and Optimisation