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      1 # Probabilistic circuit
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      3 [circuit] which represents [probability_distribution]
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      5 - leaves: distribution on a subset of variables called its scope
      6 - [product] of distributions, with [decomposability]
      7 - sum with coefficients to [mix] distributions
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      9 optional conditions:
     10 - [smooth]
     11 - [determinism]: disjoint support on the inputs (= non-zero proba mass?)
     12 - [structured]
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     14 we want to do [maximum_a_posteriori] on such circuits
     15 - [marginal_maximum_a_posteriori], MMAP
     16   - max_Q sum_H p(Q, H)
     17   - the problem is that summing on a subset of the variables loses [circuit_determinism]
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     19 - a sum node is Q-deterministic if support is disjoint even when projecting out Q
     20 - and a circuit is Q-det if all sum nodes are Q-det or their scope does not
     21   involve variables of Q
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     23 - md-vtrees: a way to guarantee marginal determinism, just by labeling v-tree
     24   nodes with a subset S of variables on which you have to be S-deterministic
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     26 connections to other kinds of [polynomials] than [probability_distributions]: see [broadrick2024polynomial]
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     28 See also: [arithmetic_circuit], [circuit_algebraic]
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     30 Up: [circuit], [probabilities]