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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 3, 2026
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This is an unrefereed computational methods preprint proposing genetic algorithms to fuse Bayesian networks while controlling treewidth complexity. The work is exploratory and demonstrates algorithmic superiority over baselines in synthetic and real-world network benchmarks, but carries no clinical validation or evidence of utility in clinical practice.
Preprint. Intervention: Genetic algorithms with advanced initialization, specialized operators, and tailored fitness function for Bayesian network fusion. Compared with: Adapted existing methods and greedy baselines.
Genetic algorithms with specialized operators outperformed adapted existing methods and greedy baselines in experiments on synthetic and real-world Bayesian networks Proposed consensus framework prioritizes shared structures among input networks while enforcing treewidth constraints
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This is a computational methods paper presenting algorithmic innovations for Bayesian network fusion without clinical validation, human studies, or real-world evidence of health impact.
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Bayesian Network (BN) fusion combines multiple input networks into a single structure, balancing dependency preservation with computational tractability. While unrestricted fusion retains all dependencies, it often results in overly complex networks with high treewidth, which affects inference scalability. Limited fusion mitigates this by pruning edges to control treewidth but risks overfitting to input-specific noise and omitting dependencies from the original BNs. This paper introduces a consensus framework that prioritizes shared structures among input networks while enforcing treewidth constraints, ensuring a good consensus. We propose genetic algorithms with advanced initialization, specialized operators, and a tailored fitness function. Additionally, we adapt existing methods to this problem and implement greedy baselines for benchmarking and further optimization. Experiments on synthetic and real-world BNs show the superiority of the proposed genetic algorithms over the adapted methods and greedy baselines.
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