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A determinantal point process (DPP) on a collection of $M$ items is a model, parameterized by a symmetric kernel matrix, that assigns a probability to every subset of those items. Recent work shows that removing the kernel symmetry…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Insu Han , Mike Gartrell , Jennifer Gillenwater , Elvis Dohmatob , Amin Karbasi

A determinantal point process (DPP) is a probabilistic model of set diversity compactly parameterized by a positive semi-definite kernel matrix. To fit a DPP to a given task, we would like to learn the entries of its kernel matrix by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-06 Jennifer Gillenwater , Alex Kulesza , Emily Fox , Ben Taskar

Determinantal Point Process (DPPs) are statistical models for repulsive point patterns. Both sampling and inference are tractable for DPPs, a rare feature among models with negative dependence that explains their popularity in machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Michaël Fanuel , Rémi Bardenet

Semi-parametric regression models are used in several applications which require comprehensibility without sacrificing accuracy. Typical examples are spline interpolation in geophysics, or non-linear time series problems, where the system…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-10 Michaël Fanuel , Joachim Schreurs , Johan A. K. Suykens

The Determinantal Point Process (DPP) is a parameterized model for multivariate binary variables, characterized by a correlation kernel matrix. This paper proposes a closed form estimator of this kernel, which is particularly easy to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-05-21 Christian Gouriéroux , Yang Lu

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) offer an elegant tool for encoding probabilities over subsets of a ground set. Discrete DPPs are parametrized by a positive semidefinite matrix (called the DPP kernel), and estimating this kernel is key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Zelda Mariet , Suvrit Sra

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are well known models for diverse subset selection problems, including recommendation tasks, document summarization and image search. In this paper, we discuss a greedy deterministic adaptation of k-DPP.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Joachim Schreurs , Michaël Fanuel , Johan A. K. Suykens

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are well-suited for modeling repulsion and have proven useful in many applications where diversity is desired. While DPPs have many appealing properties, such as efficient sampling, learning the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-02-21 Raja Hafiz Affandi , Emily B. Fox , Ryan P. Adams , Ben Taskar

Data collection and labeling is one of the main challenges in employing machine learning algorithms in a variety of real-world applications with limited data. While active learning methods attempt to tackle this issue by labeling only the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-20 Erdem Bıyık , Kenneth Wang , Nima Anari , Dorsa Sadigh

In many scientific domains, clustering aims to reveal interpretable latent structure that reflects relevant subpopulations or processes. Widely used Bayesian mixture models for model-based clustering often produce overlapping or redundant…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-13 Ziyi Song , Federico Camerlenghi , Weining Shen , Michele Guindani , Mario Beraha

Determinantal point processes (DPPs), which arise in random matrix theory and quantum physics, are natural models for subset selection problems where diversity is preferred. Among many remarkable properties, DPPs offer tractable algorithms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-02-20 Alex Kulesza , Ben Taskar

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) have attracted substantial attention as an elegant probabilistic model that captures the balance between quality and diversity within sets. DPPs are conventionally parameterized by a positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-16 Mike Gartrell , Victor-Emmanuel Brunel , Elvis Dohmatob , Syrine Krichene

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) provide an elegant and versatile way to sample sets of items that balance the point-wise quality with the set-wise diversity of selected items. For this reason, they have gained prominence in many…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-01-09 Zelda Mariet , Yaniv Ovadia , Jasper Snoek

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models over all subsets a ground set of $N$ items. They have recently gained prominence in several applications that rely on "diverse" subsets. However, their applicability to large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-27 Zelda Mariet , Suvrit Sra

We propose a new class of determinantal point processes (DPPs) which can be manipulated for inference and parameter learning in potentially sublinear time in the number of items. This class, based on a specific low-rank factorization of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-20 Christophe Dupuy , Francis Bach

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are popular models for point processes with repulsion. They appear in numerous contexts, from physics to graph theory, and display appealing theoretical properties. On the more practical side of things,…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-08-22 Simon Barthelmé , Pierre-Olivier Amblard , Nicolas Tremblay

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are repulsive point processes where the interaction between points depends on the determinant of a positive-semi definite matrix. The contributions of this paper are two-fold. First of all, we introduce…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-06-01 Simon Barthelmé , Nicolas Tremblay , Konstantin Usevich , Pierre-Olivier Amblard

Continuous determinantal point processes (DPPs) are a class of repulsive point processes on $\mathbb{R}^d$ with many statistical applications. Although an explicit expression of their density is known, it is too complicated to be used…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Arnaud Poinas , Frédéric Lavancier

Determinantal point processes (a.k.a. DPPs) have recently become popular tools for modeling the phenomenon of negative dependence, or repulsion, in data. However, our understanding of an analogue of a classical parametric statistical theory…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-22 Subhro Ghosh , Philippe Rigollet

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are popular probabilistic models of diversity. In this paper, we investigate DPPs from a new perspective: property testing of distributions. Given sample access to an unknown distribution $q$ over the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-11 Khashayar Gatmiry , Maryam Aliakbarpour , Stefanie Jegelka