C. Meek (2001) Finding a Path is Harder than Finding a Tree

C. Meek (2001) "Finding a Path is Harder than Finding a Tree", Volume 15, pages 383-389

I consider the problem of learning an optimal path graphical model from data and show the problem to be NP-hard for the maximum likelihood and minimum description length approaches and a Bayesian approach. This hardness result holds despite the fact that the problem is a restriction of the polynomially solvable problem of finding the optimal tree graphical model.

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