Dirichlet Processes: Tutorial and Practical Course
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The Bayesian approach allows for a coherent framework for dealing with uncertainty in machine learning. By integrating out parameters, Bayesian models do not suffer from overfitting, thus it is conceivable to consider models with infinite numbers of parameters, aka Bayesian nonparametric models. An example of such models is the Gaussian process, which is a distribution over functions used in regression and classification problems. Another example is the Dirichlet process, which is a distribution over distributions. Dirichlet processes are used in density estimation, clustering, and nonparametric relaxations of parametric models. It has been gaining popularity in both the statistics and machine learning communities, due to its computational tractability and modelling flexibility.
In the tutorial I shall introduce Dirichlet processes, and describe different representations of Dirichlet processes, including the Blackwell-MacQueen? urn scheme, Chinese restaurant processes, and the stick-breaking construction. I shall also go through various extensions of Dirichlet processes, and applications in machine learning, natural language processing, machine vision, computational biology and beyond.
In the practical course I shall describe inference algorithms for Dirichlet processes based on Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling, and we shall implement a Dirichlet process mixture model, hopefully applying it to discovering clusters of NIPS papers and authors.
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nice
One of the best tutorial on understanding Gaussian/Dirichlet Distribution/Process.
-Prasen
Thank you!The tutorial is much help to me because I am studying LDA model.
Very nice lecture. I really liked how the concepts were introduced and linked together. Very well explained. Thank You!!
Shouldn't the formula of posterior over parameters be;
p(w|x,y) = p(w|x)p(y|x,w) / p(y|x)
instead of
p(w|x,y) = p(w)p(y|x,w) / p(y|x)
on slide 5 (time 4:37)?
If not, could anyone kindly tell me why it is ok to take away the conditional of x from the prior?
thanks
Couldn't it be that w is independent with x?
Very nice. Is the practical session recorded?
p(w|x,y)p(x,y) = p(x,y,w) = p(y|x,w)p(x|w)p(w)
using Bayes rule and as previous poster mentioned x indep. of w
=>
p(w|x,y) = p(y|x,w)p(x)p(w) / (p(y|x)p(x))
= p(y|x,w)p(w) / p(y|x)
As in the slides
In the slide on de Finetti's theorem, he says "if there exists a sequence of thetas that are exchangeable then there exists a *random* probability measure - a random distribution - which makes the theta's iid"
My question is what is a *random* probability measure ? I.e. does the measure itself depend / vary on the underlying sample space X - and if so, how ?
The wikipedia definition of this theorem does not seem to imply any dependence on X. Any clarifications would be appreciated !
nice talk! a big help for me. ^_^
I think that this approach is very effective. Actually most of my friends are using it.
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