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Why is exact inference in Bayesian networks hard in general?

  • A.The problem is NP-hard for arbitrary structures
  • B.The conditional tables cannot be stored for large networks
  • C.The evidence cannot be incorporated without recomputing everything
  • D.Floating point error accumulates too rapidly to be tolerated

Answer: A

Exact inference is NP-hard in general, though polytrees admit linear-time inference, so the difficulty lives in the loops. Storage, evidence handling and numerical error are real engineering concerns but are not the source of the complexity result. Knowing that the hardness is structural, and that a whole class of networks escapes it, is what makes approximate methods a considered choice rather than a retreat.

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