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Volume 62, Issue 2, 28 April 1997, Pages 67-75
 
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Approximating optimally discrete probability distribution with kth-order dependency for combining multiple decisions*1

Hee-Joong KangCorresponding Author Contact Information, *, Kawon Kim and Jin H. Kim

Computer Science Department and Center for Artificial Intelligence Research, KAIST, 373-1, KusImage ng-dong, YusImage ng-gu, TaejImage n 305-701, South Korea

Received 9 February 1996; 
revised 7 January 1997. 
Communicated by K. Ikeda 
Available online 12 May 1998.

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Abstract

A probabilistic combination of K classifiers' decisions obtained from samples needs a (K + 1)st-order probability distribution. Chow and Liu (1968) as well as Lewis (1959) proposed an approximation scheme of such a high-order distribution with a product of only first-order tree dependencies. However, if a classifier follows more than two classifiers, such first-order dependency does not estimate adequately a high-order distribution. Therefore, a new method is proposed to approximate optimally the (K + 1)st-order distribution with a product set of kth-order dependencies where 1 less-than-or-equals, slant k less-than-or-equals, slant K, which are identified by a systematic dependency-directed approach. And also, a new method is presented to combine probabilistically multiple decisions with the product set of the kth-order dependencies, using a Bayesian formalism.

Author Keywords: Combining multiple decisions; kth-order dependency; High-order probability distribution; Optimal approximation; Dependencydirected approximation; Probabilistic combination

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