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The finite model theory of Bayesian network specifications: Descriptive complexity and zero/one laws

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Author(s):
Cozman, Fabio Gagliardi ; Maua, Denis Deratani
Total Authors: 2
Document type: Journal article
Source: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF APPROXIMATE REASONING; v. 110, p. 20-pg., 2019-07-01.
Abstract

This paper studies specification languages that describe Bayesian networks using predicates and other logical constructs. First, we adopt an abstract syntax for relational Bayesian network specifications, and review definability and complexity results. We then propose a novel framework to study the descriptive complexity of relational Bayesian network specifications, and show that specifications based on function-free first-order logic capture the complexity class PP; we also exhibit specification languages, based on second-order quantification, that capture the hierarchy of complexity classes PPNP...NP, a result that does not seem to have equivalent in the literature. Finally, we derive zero/one laws for Bayesian network specifications based on function-free first-order logic, indicating their value in definability analysis. (C) 2019 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 15/21880-4 - PROVERBS -- PRobabilistic OVERconstrained Boolean Systems: reasoning tools and applications
Grantee:Marcelo Finger
Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
FAPESP's process: 16/18841-0 - Inference and learning algorithms for probabilistic logic programming
Grantee:Fabio Gagliardi Cozman
Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Research Partnership for Technological Innovation - PITE