CS 4100: Artificial Intelligence Bayes’ Nets
Jan-Willem van de Meent, Northeastern University
[These slides were created by Dan Klein and Pieter Abbeel for CS188 Intro to AI at UC Berkeley. All CS188 materials are available at http://ai.berkeley.edu.]
Probabilistic Models
- Models describe how (a portion of) the world works
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- Mo
Model els ar are e al alway ays simplifi ficat cations
- May not account for every variable
- May not account for all interactions between variables
- “All models are wrong; but some are useful.”
– George E. P. Box
- Wha
What do do we do do with h pr proba babi bilistic mode dels?
- We (or our agents) need to reason about unknown variables, given evidence
- Ex
Exampl ple: explanation (diagnostic reasoning)
- Ex
Exampl ple: prediction (causal reasoning)
- Ex
Exampl ple: value of information
Independence Independence
- Tw
Two
- variables are in
independent if if:
- This says that their joint distribution factors into a
product two simpler distributions
- Another form:
- We write:
- In
Indep epen enden ence ce is a a simplifying model eling as assumption
- Em
Empi pirical jo join int dis istrib ibutio ions: at best “close” to independent
- What could we assume for {W
{Weather, Traffic, Cavity, Toothache}?