network too complex to be updated

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charlie77
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network too complex to be updated

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I have a BN with 38 nodes, all being noisy-adders. Many nodes have 4 to 5 parents and 4 states. To perform sensitivity analysis I have to convert the BN into cpt nodes, but then upon running the BN it shows "Error(42): UpdateBeliefs failed - network structure is too complex". Is such a BN really too complex? The sensitivity analysis still runs but should I trust the results if the BN cannot be updated properly?
charlie77
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Re: network too complex to be updated

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It runs when I have set the evidence for all the final parent nodes. Don't know why. The network is definitely not complex.
shooltz[BayesFusion]
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Re: network too complex to be updated

Post by shooltz[BayesFusion] »

The network can be densely connected and triangulation can fail to produce a reasonably sized jointree, even with 38 nodes.

Can you share your model, so we can investigate? You can send me a forum private message if you don't want the network to be publicly available.
charlie77
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Re: network too complex to be updated

Post by charlie77 »

Hi Shooltz

Thanks for the advice. It's working as long as I set evidence to the last row of parental nodes - that's totally fine with us as we need to do that anyway.

Regards
Charles
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