Papers Published

1. Paisley, J; Carin, L; Blei, D, Variational inference for stick-breaking beta process priors, Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2011 (October, 2011), pp. 889-896 .
   (last updated on 2024/12/31)

   Abstract:
   We present a variational Bayesian inference algorithm for the stick-breaking construction of the beta process. We derive an alternate representation of the beta process that is amenable to variational inference, and present a bound relating the truncated beta process to its infinite counterpart. We assess performance on two matrix factorization problems, using a non-negative factorization model and a linear-Gaussian model. Copyright 2011 by the author(s)/owner(s).