Neyman Seminar - Feature allocations, probability functions, and paintboxes
Neyman Seminar
Apr 16, 2014, 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | 1011 Evans Hall | Happening As Scheduled
Tamara Broderick, University of California, Berkeley
Clustering involves placing entities into mutually exclusive
categories. We wish to relax the requirement of mutual exclusivity,
allowing objects to belong simultaneously to multiple classes, a
formulation that we refer to as "feature allocation." The first step
is a theoretical one. In the case of clustering the class of
probability distributions over exchangeable partitions of a...