用代数框架统一分析电路中的复合推理问题,发现高效求解的条件。
A Compositional Atlas for Algebraic Circuits
- 从半环角度建模多种推理操作的组合方式
- 提出基于电路性质和映射条件的可解性判据
- 适用于概率、因果等多类新旧推理任务
基于加乘结构的电路已成为紧凑表示布尔函数与概率分布的通用工具。通过施加结构约束,某些推理查询(如模型计数、最可能配置)可实现高效计算。近期研究将概率与因果推理视为基本算子的组合以推导可解条件。本文从代数视角出发,揭示一大类查询——包括边际MAP、概率答案集编程推理及因果后门调整——均可表示为半环上的聚合、乘积与逐元素映射算子的组合。基于该框架,我们发现了这些算子可高效组合的简洁普适条件,涉及电路属性(如边际确定性、兼容性)及映射约束。应用该分析,我们推导出多种复合推理查询的新可解条件。结果不仅统一了现有电路问题的可解性条件,还为分析新型复合推理提供了通用蓝图。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Circuits based on sum-product structure have become a ubiquitous representation to compactly encode knowledge, from Boolean functions to probability distributions. By imposing constraints on the structure of such circuits, certain inference queries become tractable, such as model counting and most probable configuration. Recent works have explored analyzing probabilistic and causal inference queries as compositions of basic operators to derive tractability conditions. In this paper, we take an algebraic perspective for compositional inference, and show that a large class of queries - including marginal MAP, probabilistic answer set programming inference, and causal backdoor adjustment - correspond to a combination of basic operators over semirings: aggregation, product, and elementwise mapping. Using this framework, we uncover simple and general sufficient conditions for tractable composition of these operators, in terms of circuit properties (e.g., marginal determinism, compatibility) and conditions on the elementwise mappings. Applying our analysis, we derive novel tractability conditions for many such compositional queries. Our results unify tractability conditions for existing problems on circuits, while providing a blueprint for analysing novel compositional inference queries.
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