TY - CONF T1 - Bisimulation-based approximate lifted inference T2 - Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence Y1 - 2009 A1 - Sen,Prithviraj A1 - Deshpande, Amol A1 - Getoor, Lise AB - There has been a great deal of recent interest in methods for performing lifted inference; however, most of this work assumes that the first-order model is given as input to the system. Here, we describe lifted inference algorithms that determine symmetries and automatically lift the probabilistic model to speedup inference. In particular, we describe approximate lifted inference techniques that allow the user to trade off inference accuracy for computational efficiency by using a handful of tunable parameters, while keeping the error bounded. Our algorithms are closely related to the graph-theoretic concept of bisimulation. We report experiments on both synthetic and real data to show that in the presence of symmetries, run-times for inference can be improved significantly, with approximate lifted inference providing orders of magnitude speedup over ground inference. JA - Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence T3 - UAI '09 PB - AUAI Press CY - Arlington, Virginia, United States SN - 978-0-9749039-5-8 UR - http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1795114.1795172 ER -