Hilbert Space Embedding for Dirichlet Process Mixtures

10/16/2012
by   Krikamol Muandet, et al.
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This paper proposes a Hilbert space embedding for Dirichlet Process mixture models via a stick-breaking construction of Sethuraman. Although Bayesian nonparametrics offers a powerful approach to construct a prior that avoids the need to specify the model size/complexity explicitly, an exact inference is often intractable. On the other hand, frequentist approaches such as kernel machines, which suffer from the model selection/comparison problems, often benefit from efficient learning algorithms. This paper discusses the possibility to combine the best of both worlds by using the Dirichlet Process mixture model as a case study.

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