Truncation-free stochastic variational inference for Bayesian nonparametric models

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2012, Pages 413-421

  Wang, Chong ^a   Blei, David M ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DIRICHLET PROCESS MIXTURE MODEL; HIERARCHICAL DIRICHLET PROCESS; LARGE DATASETS; MODEL COMPLEXITY; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; ON THE FLIES; TOPIC MODEL; VARIATIONAL INFERENCE;

ALGORITHMS; MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

INFERENCE ENGINES;

EID: 84877762487     PISSN: 10495258     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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