Abstract
We have developed a new approach (MDLEP) to learning Bayesian network structures based on the Minimum Description Length (MDL) principle and Evolutionary Programming (EP). It employs a MDL metric which is founded on information theory and integrates a knowledge-guided genetic operator for the optimization in the search process.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 174-178 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue number | 2 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1999 |
Keywords
- Bayesian networks
- Evolutionary computation
- Genetic algorithms
- Minimum description length principle
- Unsupervised learning