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Poster

An Infinite Factor Model Hierarchy Via a Noisy-Or Mechanism

Aaron Courville · Douglas Eck · Yoshua Bengio


Abstract:

The Indian Buffet Process is a Bayesian nonparametric approach that models objects as arising from an infinite number of latent factors. Here we extend the latent factor model framework to two or more unbounded layers of latent factors. From a generative perspective, each layer defines a conditional \emph{factorial} prior distribution over the binary latent variables of the layer below via a noisy-or mechanism. We explore the properties of the model with two empirical studies, one digit recognition task and one music tag data experiment.

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