The issue is that with a fixed number of components, you need to do multiple runs to find a best fit number of components. Gibbs sampling against a Dirichlet process can get you to the same answer in about the same cost as a single run of EM with a fixed number of models.
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Becksfort, Jared < jared.becksf...@stjude.org> wrote: > Ted, > > I am not sure I understand the problem with the fixed number of > components. My understanding is that CM prefers immutable objects. Adding > a component to an object would require reweighting in addition to modifying > the component list. A new mixture model could be instantiated using the > getComponents function and then adding or removing more components if > necessary. > > Jared > ________________________________________ > From: Ted Dunning [ted.dunn...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:21 PM > To: Commons Developers List > Subject: Re: [Math] MATH-816 (mixture model > distribution)=?utf-8?B?LiAgICAu? = > > Seems fine. > > I think that the limitation to a fixed number of mixture components is a > bit limiting. So is the limitation to a uniform set of components. Both > limitations can be eased without a huge difficultly. > > Avoiding the fixed number of components can be done by using some variant > of Dirichlet processes. Simply picking k_max relatively large and then > using an approximate DP over that finite set works well. > > That said, mixture models are pretty nice to have. > > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Gilles Sadowski < > gil...@harfang.homelinux.org> wrote: > > > Hello. > > > > Any objection to commit the code as proposed on the report page? > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MATH-816 > > > > > > Regards, > > Gilles > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > > > > > > Email Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/emaildisclaimer > Consultation Disclaimer: www.stjude.org/consultationdisclaimer > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org > >
