A moral graph is a concept in graph theory, used to find the equivalent undirected form of a directed acyclic graph. It is a key step of the junction tree algorithm, used in belief propagation on graphical models.
The moralized counterpart of a directed acyclic graph which is formed by connecting nodes that have a common child, and then making all edges in the graph undirected. The name stems from the fact the two node that have a common child are said to be married. Equivalently, a moral graph of a directed acyclic graph G is an undirected graph in which each node of the original G is now connected to its Markov blanket.
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- Cowell, Robert G. (1999). "3.2.1 Moralization". Probabilistic Networks and Expert Systems. Springer-Verlag New York. pp. p31-33. ISBN 0-387-98767-3.
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