A Birth-Death Process for Feature Allocation

We propose a Bayesian nonparametric prior over feature allocations for sequential data, the birth-death feature allocation process (BDFP). The BDFP models the evolution of the feature allocation of a set of N objects across a covariate (e.g. time) by creating and deleting features. A BDFP is exchang...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Palla, K, Knowles, D, Ghahramani, Z
Format: Conference item
Published: Proceedings of Machine Learning Research 2017