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 | | Notice that, if this graph was undirected, the child would always separate the parents; hence when converting a directed graph to an undirected graph, we must add links between "unmarried" parents who share a common child (i.e., "moralize" the graph) to prevent us reading off incorrect independence statements. |
 | | In theory, this runs the risk of double counting, but Yair Weiss and others have proved that in certain cases (e.g., a single loop), events are double counted "equally", and hence "cancel" to give the right answer. |
 | | Classical control theory is mostly concerned with the special case where the graphical model is a Linear Dynamical System and the utility function is negative quadratic loss, e.g., consider a missile tracking an airplane: its goal is to minimize the squared distance between itself and the target. |
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