Reconstructing Bayesian Networks on a Quantum Annealer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.03526v1
• Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2022 15:53:05 GMT
• Title: Reconstructing Bayesian Networks on a Quantum Annealer
• Authors: Enrico Zardini, Massimo Rizzoli, Sebastiano Dissegna, Enrico Blanzieri, Davide Pastorello
• Abstract summary: O'Gorman et al. have proposed an algorithm to encode this task, but they have not provided an experimental evaluation of it. We present (i) an implementation in Python of O'Gorman's algorithm, (ii) a divide et impera approach that allows addressing BNSL problems of larger sizes. Results have shown the effectiveness of O'Gorman's formulation for BNSL instances of small sizes, and the superiority of the divide et impera approach on the direct execution of O'Gorman's algorithm.
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• Abstract: Bayesian networks are widely used probabilistic graphical models, whose structure is hard to learn starting from the generated data. O'Gorman et al. have proposed an algorithm to encode this task, i.e., the Bayesian network structure learning (BSNL), into a form that can be solved through quantum annealing, but they have not provided an experimental evaluation of it. In this paper, we present (i) an implementation in Python of O'Gorman's algorithm, (ii) a divide et impera approach that allows addressing BNSL problems of larger sizes in order to overcome the limitations imposed by the current architectures, and (iii) their empirical evaluation. Specifically, several problems with an increasing number of variables have been used in the experiments. The results have shown the effectiveness of O'Gorman's formulation for BNSL instances of small sizes, and the superiority of the divide et impera approach on the direct execution of O'Gorman's algorithm.

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