Title
The role of relevance in explanation I: Irrelevance as statistical independence
Abstract
We evaluate current explanation schemes. These are either insufficiently general, or suffer from other serious drawbacks. A domain-independent explanation theory, based on ignoring irrelevant variables in a probabilistic setting, is proposed. Independence-based maximum aposteriori probability (IB-MAP) explanations, an instance of irrelevance-based explanation, has several interesting properties, which provide for simple algorithms for computing such explanations.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1016/0888-613X(93)90027-B
International Journal of Approximate Reasoning
Keywords
Field
DocType
probabilistic reasoning,abduction,explanation under uncertainty,Bayesian belief networks,relevance
Linear system,Bayesian network,Artificial intelligence,SIMPLE algorithm,Probabilistic logic,Mathematics,Independence (probability theory),Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
4
0888-613X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
31
2.25
14
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Solomon Eyal Shimony168778.43