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Neural Information Processing Systems 

First provide a summary of the paper, and then address the following criteria: Quality, clarity, originality and significance. This work develops a new exact algorithm for structure learning of chordal Markov networks (MN) under decomposable score functions. The algorithm implements a dynamic programming approach by introducing recursive partition tree structures, which are junction tree equivalent structures that well suit the decomposition of the problem into smaller instances so to enable dynamic programming. The authors review the literature, prove the correctness of their algorithm and compare it against a modified version of GOBNILP, which is implements an state-of-the-art method for Bayesian network exact structure learning. The paper is well-written, relevant for NIPS and technically sound.