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Poster

Truncation-free Online Variational Inference for Bayesian Nonparametric Models

Chong Wang · David Blei

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2012 Poster

Abstract:

We present a truncation-free online variational inference algorithm for Bayesian nonparametric models. Unlike traditional (online) variational inference algorithms that require truncations for the model or the variational distribution, our method adapts model complexity on the fly. Our experiments for Dirichlet process mixture models and hierarchical Dirichlet process topic models on two large-scale data sets show better performance than previous online variational inference algorithms.

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