7 Appendix
–Neural Information Processing Systems
Thefaithfulnessassumption allows us to infer dependence relations based on d-separation:Pis said to be faithful to graphD when the following holds: Any three variablesX,Y,Z that are not d-separated are conditionally dependent,i.e.,X 6 Y |Z inP.
Neural Information Processing Systems
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