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title: "Mini-Buckets: A General Scheme for Generating Approximations in Automated Reasoning"
authors:
  - "Rina Dechter"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/187"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1997/0187.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1997
pages: "1297-1302"
track: "Probabilistic Reasoning"
keywords:
---

# Mini-Buckets: A General Scheme for Generating Approximations in Automated Reasoning

Rina Dechter

*Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1297-1302.

## Abstract

The class of algorithms for approximating reasoning tasks presented in this paper is based on approximating the general bucket elimination framework . The algorithms have adjustable levels of accuracy and efficiency, and they can be applied uniformly across many areas and problem tasks. We introduce these algorithms in the context of combinatorial optimization and probabilistic inference.