Stick-breaking Construction for the Indian Buffet Process

@inproceedings{citeulike:2491367, abstract = {The Indian buffet process (IBP) is a Bayesian nonparametric distribution whereby objects are modelled using an unbounded number of latent features. In this paper we derive a stick-breaking representation for the IBP. Based on this new rep- resentation, we develop slice samplers for the IBP that are efficient, easy to implement and are more generally applicable than the currently available Gibbs sampler. This representation, along with the work of Thibaux and Jordan [17], also illuminates interesting theoretical connec- tions between the IBP, Chinese restaurant pro- cesses, Beta processes and Dirichlet processes.}, author = {Teh, Y. W. and Gorur, D. and Ghahramani, Z. }, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistic}, citeulike-article-id = {2491367}, keywords = {aistats, dirichlet, indian-buffet}, posted-at = {2008-05-05 14:27:45}, priority = {2}, title = {Stick-breaking Construction for the Indian Buffet Process}, url = {http://scholar.google.com/scholar?client=safari\&\#38;rls=ja-jp\&\#38;q=Stick-breaking+Construction+for+the+Indian+Buffet+Process\&\#38;ie=UTF-8\&\#38;oe=UTF-8\&\#38;um=1\&\#38;sa=N\&\#38;tab=ws}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2491367 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2491367 TI - Stick-breaking Construction for the Indian Buffet Process T2 - Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistic N2 - The Indian buffet process (IBP) is a Bayesian nonparametric distribution whereby objects are modelled using an unbounded number of latent features. In this paper we derive a stick-breaking representation for the IBP. Based on this new rep- resentation, we develop slice samplers for the IBP that are efficient, easy to implement and are more generally applicable than the currently available Gibbs sampler. This representation, along with the work of Thibaux and Jordan [17], also illuminates interesting theoretical connec- tions between the IBP, Chinese restaurant pro- cesses, Beta processes and Dirichlet processes. KW - aistats KW - dirichlet KW - indian-buffet AU - Teh, YW AU - Gorur, D AU - Ghahramani, Z PY - 2007/// UR - http://scholar.google.com/scholar?client=safari&rls=ja-jp&q=Stick-breaking+Construction+for+the+Indian+Buffet+Process&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=ws ER -