Weighted Positive Binary Decision Diagrams for Exact Probabilistic Inference

Recent work on weighted model counting has been very successfully applied to\nthe problem of probabilistic inference in Bayesian networks. The probability\ndistribution is encoded into a Boolean normal form and compiled to a target\nlanguage, in order to represent local structure expressed among conditional\nprobabilities more efficiently. We show that further improvements are possible,\nby exploiting the knowledge that is lost during the encoding phase and\nincorporating it into a compiler inspired by Satisfiability Modulo Theories.\nConstraints among variables are used as a background theory, which allows us to\noptimize the Shannon decomposition. We propose a new language, called Weighted\nPositive Binary Decision Diagrams, that reduces the cost of probabilistic\ninference by using this decomposition variant to induce an arithmetic circuit\nof reduced size.\n

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