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Mastering Probabilistic Graphical Models with Python

By : Ankur Ankan
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Mastering Probabilistic Graphical Models with Python

By: Ankur Ankan

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Mastering Probabilistic Graphical Models with Python
Ankur Ankan
Aug, 2015 | 284 pages
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Table of Contents (14 chapters)
Mastering Probabilistic Graphical Models Using Python
Mastering Probabilistic Graphical Models Using Python
Credits
Credits
About the Authors
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
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Preface
Preface
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1
Bayesian Network Fundamentals
Bayesian Network Fundamentals
Probability theory
Installing tools
Representing independencies using pgmpy
Representing joint probability distributions using pgmpy
Conditional probability distribution
Graph theory
Bayesian models
Relating graphs and distributions
CPD representations
Summary
2
Markov Network Fundamentals
Markov Network Fundamentals
Introducing the Markov network
The factor graph
Independencies in Markov networks
Constructing graphs from distributions
Bayesian and Markov networks
Summary
3
Inference – Asking Questions to Models
Inference – Asking Questions to Models
Inference
Variable elimination
Belief propagation
MAP using variable elimination
Factor maximization
MAP using belief propagation
Finding the most probable assignment
Predictions from the model using pgmpy
A comparison of variable elimination and belief propagation
Summary
4
Approximate Inference
Approximate Inference
The optimization problem
The energy function
Exact inference as an optimization
The propagation-based approximation algorithm
Propagation with approximate messages
Sampling-based approximate methods
Forward sampling
Conditional probability distribution
Likelihood weighting and importance sampling
Importance sampling
Importance sampling in Bayesian networks
Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
Gibbs sampling
The multiple transitioning model
Using a Markov chain
Collapsed particles
Collapsed importance sampling
Summary
5
Model Learning – Parameter Estimation in Bayesian Networks
Model Learning – Parameter Estimation in Bayesian Networks
General ideas in learning
Learning as an optimization
Discriminative versus generative training
Parameter learning
Bayesian parameter estimation
Structure learning in Bayesian networks
The Bayesian score for Bayesian networks
Summary
6
Model Learning – Parameter Estimation in Markov Networks
Model Learning – Parameter Estimation in Markov Networks
Maximum likelihood parameter estimation
Summary
7
Specialized Models
Specialized Models
The Naive Bayes model
Dynamic Bayesian networks
The Hidden Markov model
Applications
Summary
Index
Index

About the Authors

Ankur Ankan is a BTech graduate from IIT (BHU), Varanasi. He is currently working in the field of data science. He is an open source enthusiast and his major work includes starting pgmpy with four other members. In his free time, he likes to participate in Kaggle competitions.

I would like to thank all the pgmpy contributors who have helped me in bringing it to its current stable state. Also, I would like to thank my parents for their relentless support in my endeavors.

Abinash Panda is an undergraduate from IIT (BHU), Varanasi, and is currently working as a data scientist. He has been a contributor to open source libraries such as the Shogun machine learning toolbox and pgmpy, which he started writing along with four other members. He spends most of his free time on improving pgmpy and helping new contributors.

I would like to thank all the pgmpy contributors. Also, I would like to thank my parents for their support. I am also grateful to all my batchmates of electronics engineering, the class of 2014, for motivating me.

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