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On Identifying a Massive Number of Distributions

Information Theory 2018-10-16 v1 math.IT

Abstract

Finding the underlying probability distributions of a set of observed sequences under the constraint that each sequence is generated i.i.d by a distinct distribution is considered. The number of distributions, and hence the number of observed sequences, are let to grow with the observation blocklength nn. Asymptotically matching upper and lower bounds on the probability of error are derived.

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@article{arxiv.1801.04593,
  title  = {On Identifying a Massive Number of Distributions},
  author = {Sara Shahi and Daniela Tuninetti and Natasha Devroye},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.04593},
  year   = {2018}
}

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