Expectation propagation for infinite mixtures

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  • Zoubin Ghahramani
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This note describes a method for approximate inference in infinite models that uses deterministic Expectation Propagation instead of Monte Carlo. For infinite Gaussian mixtures, the algorithm provides cluster parameter estimates, cluster memberships, and model evidence. Model parameters, such as the expected size of the mixture, can be efficiently tuned via EM with EP as the E-step. The same approach can apply other infinite models such as infinite HMMs.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003