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NIPS
2004
14 years 10 months ago
2004
We develop a family of upper and lower bounds on the worst-case expected KL loss for estimating a discrete distribution on a finite number m of points, given N i.i.d. samples. Our...
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NIPS
2001
14 years 10 months ago
2001
We describe latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), a generative probabilistic model for collections of discrete data such as text corpora. LDA is a three-level hierarchical Bayesian m...
SLSFS
2005
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
2005
Springer
Abstract. This article presents a unified theory for analysis of components in discrete data, and compares the methods with techniques such as independent component analysis, non-...
LWA
2004
14 years 10 months ago
2004
This paper describes nonparametric Bayesian treatments for analyzing records containing occurrences of items. The introduced model retains the strength of previous approaches that...
NIPS
2007
14 years 10 months ago
2007
A wide variety of Dirichlet-multinomial ‘topic’ models have found interesting applications in recent years. While Gibbs sampling remains an important method of inference in su...