Pitman–Yor process models

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Pitman–Yor process models are Bayesian nonparametric models that generalize Dirichlet process models by allowing power-law behavior and heavier-tailed distributions over clusters.

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instanceOf Bayesian nonparametric model
probabilistic model
allow heavier-tailed distributions over clusters
power-law behavior in cluster sizes
appliedTo power-law phenomena in data
vocabulary growth modeling
word frequency modeling
assume exchangeability of observations
basedOn Pitman–Yor process NERFINISHED
canBeExtendedTo hierarchical Pitman–Yor process models
characterizedBy exchangeable partition probability function
power-law distribution over number of clusters
rich-get-richer clustering behavior
comparedTo Dirichlet process models NERFINISHED
enable flexible prior over partitions
modeling of heavy-tailed cluster size distributions
extend Dirichlet process mixture models NERFINISHED
generalize Chinese restaurant process models
Dirichlet process models NERFINISHED
hasHyperparameter base distribution
concentration parameter
discount parameter
implementedIn Markov chain Monte Carlo inference methods NERFINISHED
sequential Monte Carlo methods
variational inference methods
mathematicallyBasedOn random partitions
stable subordinators
originatedFrom work of Jim Pitman
work of Marc Yor
provide more flexible prior over cluster sizes than Dirichlet process models
relatedTo Chinese restaurant process NERFINISHED
Dirichlet process NERFINISHED
Poisson–Dirichlet distribution NERFINISHED
specialCaseOf two-parameter Poisson–Dirichlet process models
support countably infinite number of clusters
power-law tails in predictive distributions
usedFor clustering
density estimation
hierarchical Bayesian modeling
language modeling
mixture modeling
nonparametric prior over discrete distributions
topic modeling
usedIn Bayesian statistics NERFINISHED
machine learning
natural language processing
nonparametric Bayesian inference

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Dirichlet process models relatedTo Pitman–Yor process models