#notes#cs471
Bayesian Networks help us express conditional independence assumptions
Probabilistic Models
- Always simplifications
- Describe a portion of how the world works.
Graphical Model Notation
- Nodes: random variables (with domains)
- Edges: Interactions
- Indicate direct influence between variables
Bayes Nets
Bayes’ Nets implicitly encode join probability distribution as a product of local conditional distributions:
