Garcia–Stillman–Sturmfels conjecture for the binary hidden naive Bayes model

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Let nn be the number of observed variables, each with two states, and let a(2;2,2,,2)\mathfrak a(2;2,2,\dots,2) be the ideal associated to the hidden naive Bayes model with one hidden variable having two states. For every bipartition of the observed variables, form the corresponding two-dimensional flattening of the 2××22\times\cdots\times 2 probability tensor.

Garcia–Stillman–Sturmfels conjecture. The ideal a(2;2,2,,2)\mathfrak a(2;2,2,\dots,2) is generated by the 3×33\times 3 minors of all two-dimensional flattenings arising from bipartitions of the observed variables.

The paper presents this as a special case from which a proof of the full conjecture of Garcia, Stillman, and Sturmfels would follow. The supplied text does not establish whether this special case is resolved, so its database status remains open.

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Elizabeth S. Allman and John A. Rhodes, “Phylogenetic ideals and varieties for the general Markov model”, arXiv:math/0410604 (2006).

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