Learning the structure of Dynamic Bayesian Network with domain knowledge

Abstract

Dynamic Bayesian Network (DBN) is a graphical model for representing temporal stochastic processes. Learning the structure of DBN is a fundamental step for parameter learning, inference and application. For large scale problem, the structure learning is intractable. In some domains the training data is very limited and noisy, so learning the DBN structure only with training data is impractical. Domain knowledge may improve both the efficiency and the accuracy of the learning algorithm. But usually, the domain knowledge is uncertainty, unclear and even with conflict. This paper presents a novel algorithm for learning the structure of DBN, which consider the data and domain knowledge simultaneously, empirical experiment shows that the proposed algorithm improved the efficiency and the accuracy of the DBN structure learning.