Semantic probabilistic layers for neuro-symbolic learning

K Ahmed, S Teso, KW Chang… - Advances in …, 2022 - proceedings.neurips.cc
We design a predictive layer for structured-output prediction (SOP) that can be plugged into
any neural network guaranteeing its predictions are consistent with a set of predefined …

On the expressive power of deep learning: A tensor analysis

N Cohen, O Sharir, A Shashua - Conference on learning …, 2016 - proceedings.mlr.press
It has long been conjectured that hypotheses spaces suitable for data that is compositional
in nature, such as text or images, may be more efficiently represented with deep hierarchical …

Einsum networks: Fast and scalable learning of tractable probabilistic circuits

R Peharz, S Lang, A Vergari… - International …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Probabilistic circuits (PCs) are a promising avenue for probabilistic modeling, as they permit
a wide range of exact and efficient inference routines. Recent “deep-learning-style” …

Random sum-product networks: A simple and effective approach to probabilistic deep learning

R Peharz, A Vergari, K Stelzner… - Uncertainty in …, 2020 - proceedings.mlr.press
Sum-product networks (SPNs) are expressive probabilistic models with a rich set of exact
and efficient inference routines. However, in order to guarantee exact inference, they require …

Mixed sum-product networks: A deep architecture for hybrid domains

A Molina, A Vergari, N Di Mauro, S Natarajan… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - ojs.aaai.org
While all kinds of mixed data---from personal data, over panel and scientific data, to public
and commercial data---are collected and stored, building probabilistic graphical models for …

On the latent variable interpretation in sum-product networks

R Peharz, R Gens, F Pernkopf… - IEEE transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
One of the central themes in Sum-Product networks (SPNs) is the interpretation of sum
nodes as marginalized latent variables (LVs). This interpretation yields an increased …

Simplifying, regularizing and strengthening sum-product network structure learning

A Vergari, N Di Mauro, F Esposito - … 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7-11 …, 2015 - Springer
The need for feasible inference in Probabilistic Graphical Models (PGMs) has lead to
tractable models like Sum-Product Networks (SPNs). Their highly expressive power and …

A survey of sum–product networks structural learning

R **a, Y Zhang, X Liu, B Yang - Neural Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Sum–product networks (SPNs) in deep probabilistic models have made great progress in
computer vision, robotics, neuro-symbolic artificial intelligence, natural language …

Continuous mixtures of tractable probabilistic models

AHC Correia, G Gala, E Quaeghebeur… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Probabilistic models based on continuous latent spaces, such as variational autoencoders,
can be understood as uncountable mixture models where components depend continuously …

On the relationship between sum-product networks and Bayesian networks

H Zhao, M Melibari, P Poupart - International Conference on …, 2015 - proceedings.mlr.press
In this paper, we establish some theoretical connections between Sum-Product Networks
(SPNs) and Bayesian Networks (BNs). We prove that every SPN can be converted into a BN …