2008-07-09-huang08a.md

abstract	title	year	layout	series	publisher	issn	id	month	tex_title	firstpage	lastpage	page	order	cycles	bibtex_author	author	date	note	address	container-title	volume	genre	issued	pdf	extras
We introduce a new type of graphical model called a ’cumulative distribution network’ (CDN), which expresses a joint cumulative distribution as a product of local functions. Each local function can be viewed as providing evidence about possible orderings, or rankings, of variables. Interestingly, we find that the conditional independence properties of CDNs are quite different from other graphical models. We also describe a message-passing algorithm that efficiently computes conditional cumulative distributions. Due to the unique independence properties of the CDN, these messages do not in general have a one-to-one correspondence with messages exchanged in standard algorithms, such as belief propagation. We demonstrate the application of CDNs for structured ranking learning using a previously-studied multi-player gaming dataset.	Cumulative distribution networks and the derivative-sum-product algorithm	2008	inproceedings	Proceedings of Machine Learning Research	PMLR	2640-3498	huang08a	0	Cumulative distribution networks and the derivative-sum-product algorithm	290	297	290-297	290	false	Huang, Jim C. and Frey, Brendan J.	given family Jim C. Huang given family Brendan J. Frey	2008-07-09	Reissued by PMLR on 09 October 2024.		Proceedings of the 24th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence	R6	inproceedings	date-parts 2008 7 9	https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mlresearch/r6/main/assets/huang08a/huang08a.pdf