Probabilistic Graphical Models in RapidMiner

Abstract

This Report describes the technical background and usage of the GraphMod plug-in for RapidMiner. The plug-in enables RapidMiner to load factor graphs and interpret Label and Attributes which are contained in an Example as assignments to random variables. A set of examples which belong to the same Batch is treated as assignment to a whole factor graph. New operators allow the estimation of factor weights, the computation of the single-node marginal probability functions and the computation of the most probable assignment for each Labelnode with several methods. All algorithms are optimized for parallel execution on common multi-core processors and NVIDIA CUDA capable many-core processors (also known as Graphics Processing Unit).