Hello, Science! [10/03/16] 

  • Dirichlet Distributions and Entropy

    In between all the Netflix excitement I managed to read a paper that was mentioned by David Blei during his machine learning summer school talk: Entropy and Inference, Revisited by Ilya Nemenman, Fariel Shafee and William Bialek from NIPS 2002. This paper discusses some issues that arise when learning Dirichlet distributions. Sinc…

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