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Poster

Logical Credal Networks

Radu Marinescu · Haifeng Qian · Alexander Gray · Debarun Bhattacharjya · Francisco Barahona · Tian Gao · Ryan Riegel · Pravinda Sahu

Hall J (level 1) #801

Keywords: [ probabilistic logic ] [ knowledge representation ] [ bayesian networks ] [ Graphical Models ]


Abstract:

We introduce Logical Credal Networks (or LCNs for short) -- an expressive probabilistic logic that generalizes prior formalisms that combine logic and probability. Given imprecise information represented by probability bounds and conditional probability bounds on logic formulas, an LCN specifies a set of probability distributions over all its interpretations. Our approach allows propositional and first-order logic formulas with few restrictions, e.g., without requiring acyclicity. We also define a generalized Markov condition that allows us to identify implicit independence relations between atomic formulas. We evaluate our method on benchmark problems such as random networks, Mastermind games with uncertainty and credit card fraud detection. Our results show that the LCN outperforms existing approaches; its advantage lies in aggregating multiple sources of imprecise information.

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