[Probcogsci] [Fwd: COSMAL: Next COSMAL Seminar: Dirichlet Processes and Mixtures]

[Vicente Malave]

These meetings are wendesdays, 3-5pm, in CalIt2 Building, Rm 4004.


On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Roger Levy <rlevy at ucsd.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I believe that this is the meeting that Vicente was talking about!
>
> Roger
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: COSMAL: Next COSMAL Seminar: Dirichlet Processes and Mixtures
> Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:16:08 -0700
> From: Il-Young Son <ison at ucsd.edu>
> To: cosmal at cs.ucsd.edu
> CC: Gert Lanckriet <gert at ece.ucsd.edu>
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> On the coming week, we will be introducing Dirichlet Processes, how
> one goes about constructing them, some of its properties, and mixtures
> of Dirichlet Processes.  The relevant papers to read are Ferguson and
> Antioniak primarily for this week.  And hopefully, if time permits,
> also Sethuraman's paper which gives an alternative construction of DPs
> which will be helpful when we start discussing how to sample from
> DPs.  Also, Blei's tutorial is helpful in getting an overall sense of
> DPs and MDPs and easier to read, though less detailed, than Ferguson's
> or Antoniak's papers.
>
> It may also help to review some basic measure theory concepts, at
> least being familiar with some of the language as it may help mitigate
> some possible confusion when dealing with DPs.  There are several
> measures embedded in the construction of DPs so it can potentially get
> kind of confusing keeping track of all of them, although once you get
> over that hurdle it's not too difficult to understand.
>
> Il-Young Son.
>
>
>
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