PPT-Self-paced Learning for Latent Variable Models

Presented by Zhou Yu TexPoint fonts used in EMF Read the TexPoint manual before you delete this box A A A A A A MPawan Kumar Ben Packer Daphne Koller Stanford University 1 Aim . com ABSTRACT Latent variable techniques are pivotal in tasks ranging from predicting user click patterns and targeting ads to organiz ing the news and managing user generated content La tent variable techniques like topic modeling clustering and subs Clustering. Rajhans . Samdani. ,. . Kai-Wei . Chang. , . Dan . Roth. Department . of Computer Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-. Champaign. Coreference resolution: cluster denotative noun phrases (. Machine Learning. Last Time. Expectation Maximization. Gaussian Mixture Models. Today. EM Proof. Jensen’s Inequality. Clustering sequential data. EM over . HMMs. EM in any Graphical Model. Gibbs Sampling. The General Case. STA431: Spring 2013. See last slide for copyright information. An Extension of Multiple Regression. More than one regression-like equation. Includes latent variables. Variables can be explanatory in one equation and response in another. Latent Classes. A population contains a mixture of individuals of different types (classes). Common form of the data generating mechanism within the classes. Observed outcome y is governed by the . common process . Harvey Goldstein. Centre for Multilevel Modelling. University of Bristol. The (multilevel) binary . probit. model. . Suppose . that we have a variance components 2-level model for . an . underlying continuous variable written as . Naman Agarwal. Michael Nute. May 1, 2013. Latent Variables. Contents. Definition & Example of Latent Variables. EM Algorithm Refresher. Structured SVM with Latent Variables. Learning under semi-supervision or indirect supervision. Peter Congdon, Queen Mary University of London, School of Geography & Life Sciences Institute. Outline. Background. Bayesian approaches: advantages/cautions. Bayesian Computing, Illustrative . BUGS model, Normal Linear . Directed Mixed Graph Models. Ricardo Silva. Statistical Science/CSML, University . College London. ricardo@stats.ucl.ac.uk. Networks: Processes and Causality, Menorca 2012. Graphical Models. Graphs provide a language for describing independence constraints. Nevin. L. Zhang. Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering. The Hong Kong Univ. of Sci. & Tech.. http://www.cse.ust.hk/~lzhang. AAAI 2014 Tutorial. HKUST. 2014. HKUST. 1988. Latent Tree Models. Latent Classes. A population contains a mixture of individuals of different types (classes). Common form of the data generating mechanism within the classes. Observed outcome y is governed by the . common process . Trang Quynh Nguyen, May 9, 2016. 410.686.01 Advanced Quantitative Methods in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: A Practical Introduction. Objectives. Provide a QUICK introduction to latent class models and finite mixture modeling, with examples. Peter Congdon, Queen Mary University of London, School of Geography & Life Sciences Institute. Outline. Background. Bayesian approaches: advantages/cautions. Bayesian Computing, Illustrative . BUGS model, Normal Linear . Nisheeth. Coin toss example. Say you toss a coin N times. You want to figure out its bias. Bayesian approach. Find the generative model. Each toss ~ Bern(. θ. ). θ. ~ Beta(. α. ,. β. ). Draw the generative model in plate notation.