Adnan Darwiche's UCLA course: Learning and Reasoning with Bayesian Networks.
Discusses recent semantics of arithmetic circuits (ACs) and their relationship to Probabilistic Sentential Decision Diagrams (PSDDs).
NIPS 2016 paper discussed in lecture.
Title: Tractable Operations on Arithmetic Circuits of Probabilistic Models.
Authors: Yujia Shen, Arthur Choi and Adnan Darwiche
URL: http://reasoning.cs.ucla.edu/fetch.php?id=168&type=pdf
ICML 2017 paper discussed in lecture.
Titile: On Relaxing Determinism in Arithmetic Circuits
Authors: Arthur Choi and Adnan Darwiche.
URL: http://reasoning.cs.ucla.edu/fetch.php?id=173&type=pdf
