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Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are specific probability distributions over clouds of points that are used as models and computational tools across physics, probability, statistics, and more recently machine learning. Sampling from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Guillaume Gautier , Guillermo Polito , Rémi Bardenet , Michal Valko

Determinantal point processes (DPPs for short) are a class of repulsive point processes. They have found some statistical applications to model spatial point pattern datasets with repulsion between close points. In the case of DPPs on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Poinas Arnaud

Generative models have proven to be an outstanding tool for representing high-dimensional probability distributions and generating realistic-looking images. An essential characteristic of generative models is their ability to produce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Mohamed Elfeki , Camille Couprie , Morgane Riviere , Mohamed Elhoseiny

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 processes (DPPs) are point process models that naturally encode diversity between the points of a given realization, through a positive definite kernel $K$. DPPs possess desirable properties, such as exact sampling or…

Computation · Statistics 2015-07-07 Rémi Bardenet , Michalis K. Titsias

Scaling probabilistic models to large realistic problems and datasets is a key challenge in machine learning. Central to this effort is the development of tractable probabilistic models (TPMs): models whose structure guarantees efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Honghua Zhang , Steven Holtzen , Guy Van den Broeck

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 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

We consider mixture models where location parameters are a priori encouraged to be well separated. We explore a class of determinantal point process (DPP) mixture models, which provide the desired notion of separation or repulsion. Instead…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-16 Ilaria Bianchini , Alessandra Guglielmi , Fernando A. Quintana

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) have received significant attention as an elegant probabilistic model for discrete subset selection. Most prior work on DPP learning focuses on maximum likelihood estimation (MLE). While efficient and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-20 Lucas Anquetil , Mike Gartrell , Alain Rakotomamonjy , Ugo Tanielian , Clément Calauzènes

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) are probabilistic models that arise in quantum physics and random matrix theory and have recently found numerous applications in computer science. DPPs define distributions over subsets of a given ground…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-04-25 L. Elisa Celis , Amit Deshpande , Tarun Kathuria , Damian Straszak , Nisheeth K. Vishnoi

A determinantal point process (DPP) is a random process useful for modeling the combinatorial problem of subset selection. In particular, DPPs encourage a random subset Y to contain a diverse set of items selected from a base set Y. For…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Raja Hafiz Affandi , Alex Kulesza , Emily B. Fox

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) have attracted significant interest from the machine-learning community due to their ability to elegantly and tractably model the delicate balance between quality and diversity of sets. DPPs are commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-27 Zelda Mariet , Mike Gartrell , Suvrit Sra

Determinantal point processes (DPPs) are repulsive point processes where the interaction between points depends on the determinant of a positive-semi definite matrix. In this paper, we study the limiting process of L-ensembles based on…

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

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) enable the modeling of repulsion: they provide diverse sets of points. The repulsion is encoded in a kernel $K$ that can be seen as a matrix storing the similarity between points. The diversity comes…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-24 Claire Launay , Bruno Galerne , Agnès Desolneux

Dimensionality reduction is a first step of many machine learning pipelines. Two popular approaches are principal component analysis, which projects onto a small number of well chosen but non-interpretable directions, and feature selection,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-27 Ayoub Belhadji , Rémi Bardenet , Pierre Chainais

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

The development of machine learning interatomic potentials faces a critical computational bottleneck with the generation and labeling of useful training datasets. We present a novel application of determinantal point processes (DPPs) to the…

Applications · Statistics 2026-03-24 Joanna Zou , Youssef Marzouk

Randomized Numerical Linear Algebra (RandNLA) uses randomness to develop improved algorithms for matrix problems that arise in scientific computing, data science, machine learning, etc. Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs), a seemingly…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-05-08 Michał Dereziński , Michael W. Mahoney