Heterogeneous Ordinal Structure Learning with Bayesian Nonparametric Complexity Discovery
Public attitudes toward artificial intelligence are heterogeneous, ordinally measured, and poorly captured by any single dependency graph. Existing ordinal structure learners assume a shared directed acyclic graph (DAG) across all respondents; recent heterogeneous ordinal graphical-model approaches focus on subgroup discovery rather than confirmatory cluster-specific DAG estimation; and latent profile analyses discard dependency structure entirely. We introduce a heterogeneous ordinal structure-learning framework combining monotone Gaussian score embedding, Bayesian nonparametric (BNP) complexity discovery via a truncated stick-breaking prior, and confirmatory fixed-K estimation with cluster-specific sparse DAG learning. The key methodological insight is a discovery-to-confirmation workflow: the nonparametric stage calibrates plausible archetype complexity, while inner-validated confirmatory refitting yields stable, interpretable structural estimates. On the 2024 Pew American Trends Panel AI attitudes survey, Wave 152 (W152) survey, (N = 4,788, 8 ordinal items), the confirmatory K*=5 model reduces holdout transformed-score mean squared error (MSE) by 25.8% over a single-graph baseline and by 4.6% over mixture-only clustering. A controlled tiered semi-synthetic benchmark calibrated to W152 structure validates recovery across difficulty regimes and transparently reveals failure modes under stress conditions.
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