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

[Nathaniel Smith]

And does anyone know where to find the papers?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Vicente Malave
<vicente.malave at gmail.com> wrote:
> These meetings are wendesdays, 3-5pm, in CalIt2 Building, Rm 4004.
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Roger Levy <rlevy at ucsd.edu> wrote:
>> Hi all,
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>> I believe that this is the meeting that Vicente was talking about!
>>
>> Roger
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>> -------- 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.
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>> 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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