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Finding a Path is Harder than Finding a Tree

Finding a Path is Harder than Finding a Tree

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 …