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Stochastic Patching Process

Artificial Intelligence 2017-02-28 v2 Machine Learning

Abstract

Stochastic partition models tailor a product space into a number of rectangular regions such that the data within each region exhibit certain types of homogeneity. Due to constraints of partition strategy, existing models may cause unnecessary dissections in sparse regions when fitting data in dense regions. To alleviate this limitation, we propose a parsimonious partition model, named Stochastic Patching Process (SPP), to deal with multi-dimensional arrays. SPP adopts an "enclosing" strategy to attach rectangular patches to dense regions. SPP is self-consistent such that it can be extended to infinite arrays. We apply SPP to relational modeling and the experimental results validate its merit compared to the state-of-the-arts.

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@article{arxiv.1605.06886,
  title  = {Stochastic Patching Process},
  author = {Xuhui Fan and Bin Li and Yi Wang and Yang Wang and Fang Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.06886},
  year   = {2017}
}
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