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We present a Bayesian nonparametric framework for multilevel clustering which utilizes group-level context information to simultaneously discover low-dimensional structures of the group contents and partitions groups into clusters. Using…
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We propose a Bayesian nonparametric mixture model for the reconstruction and prediction from observed time series data, of discretized stochastic dynamical systems, based on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods (MCMC). Our results can be used…
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The influence of Dirichlet process mixture is ubiquitous in the Bayesian nonparametrics literature. But sampling from its posterior distribution remains a challenge, despite the advent of various Markov chain Monte Carlo methods. The…