An Alternative Prior Process for Nonparametric Bayesian Clustering

Details An Alternative Prior Process for Nonparametric Bayesian Clustering An Alternative Prior Process for Nonparametric Bayesian Clustering

2008-01-03

arxiv.org/abs/0801.0461v2

Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS) 2010, JMLR W & CP 9

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Prior distributions play a crucial role in Bayesian approaches to clustering. Two commonly-used prior distributions are the Dirichlet and Pitman-Yor processes. In this paper, we investigate the predictive probabilities that underlie these processes, and the implicit "rich-get-richer" characteristic of the resulting partitions. We explore an alternative prior for nonparametric Bayesian clustering -- the uniform process -- for applications where the "rich-get-richer" property is undesirable. We also explore the cost of this process: partitions are no longer exchangeable with respect to the ordering of variables. We present new asymptotic and simulation-based results for the clustering characteristics of the uniform process and compare these with known results for the Dirichlet and Pitman-Yor processes. We compare performance on a real document clustering task, demonstrating the practical advantage of the uniform process despite its lack of exchangeability over orderings.

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