\dm_csml_event_details UCL ELLIS

Probabilistic Independence, Graphs, and Random Networks


Speaker

Kayvan Sadeghi

Affiliation

UCL

Date

Friday, 16 November 2018

Time

13:00-14:00

Location

Zoom

Link

Roberts G08

Event series

DeepMind/ELLIS CSML Seminar Series

Abstract

The main purpose of this talk is to explore the relationship between the set of conditional independence statements induced by a probability distribution and the set of separations induced by graphs as studied in graphical models. I introduce the concepts of Markov property and faithfulness, and provide conditions under which a given probability distribution is Markov or faithful to a graph in a general setting. I discuss the implications of these conditions in devising structural learning algorithms, in understanding exchangeable vectors, and in random network analysis.

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