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Quartet-Based Learning of Hierarchical Latent Class Models: Discovery of Shallow Latent Variables Tao Chen and Nevin L. Zhang Department of Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science Technology Hong Kong, China {csct,lzhang}@cs.ust.hk Abstract Hierarchical latent class (HLC) models are tree-structured Bayesian networks where leaf nodes are observed while internal nodes are hidden. The currently most efficient al- gorithm for learning HLC models can deal with only a few dozen observed variables. While this is sufficient for some applications, more efficient algorithms are needed for