| BIC | Bayesian information criterion |
| BNPL | Bayesian Networks parameter learning |
| BNs | Bayesian Networks |
| BNSL | Bayesian Networks structure learning |
| BSF | Balanced Scoring Function |
| DAG | directed acyclic graph |
| FN | False Negatives |
| FP | False Positives |
| GOBNILP | global optimal Bayesian Networks Integer linear programming |
| HC | Hill-climbing |
| ILS | Iterated local search |
| ILSG | ILS adopted over DAG |
| ILSM | ILSG with Momentum |
| MMHC | Max-Min Hill-climbing algorithm |
| TN | True Negatives |
| TP | True Positives |
| SHD | Structural Hamming Distance |