variable elimination and arc reversal
A Comparative Study of Variable Elimination and Arc Reversal in Bayesian Network Inference
Butz, Cory James (University of Regina) | Chen, Junying (University of Regina) | Konkel, Ken (University of Regina) | Lingras, Pawan (Saint Mary's University)
We compare two approaches to Bayesian network inference, called variable elimination (VE) and arc reversal (AR). It is established that VE never requires more space than AR, and never requires more computation (multiplications and additions) than AR.