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M06.4 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Factor a joint distribution into smaller pieces

The lawn is wet at dawn. Did it rain? Learn how a few arrows tame a billion-row probability table, and why spotting the sprinkler makes rain less likely.

LESSON OVERVIEW11 min lesson

Lesson overview

The lawn is wet at dawn. Did it rain? Learn how a few arrows tame a billion-row probability table, and why spotting the sprinkler makes rain less likely.

What you’ll explore

  • Bayesian networks and factor graphs encode a probability factorization; inference combines local factors to answer conditional questions while respecting hidden dependencies.
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach — authors’ materialsDeep Learning — probability and information theory
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