Questions tagged [nonparametric-bayes]

Bayesian methods for infinite dimensional parameter spaces.

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What are some applications of Chinese restaurant processes?

What are some applications of Chinese restaurant processes? I'm trying to learn a bit about non-parametric Bayesian methods, starting with Dirichlet processes and CRPs, but all the tutorials I've found are about theory, without describing any…
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Pitman-Yor processes in R or Python

I am looking for a good tool in R or Python or any other implementation that can help to me generate sampling from hierarchical Pitman-Yor processes (HPY) (one of the recent and popular nonparametric Bayesian methods) to do language modeling. Any…
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what does z|G mean in nonparametric bayes?

when saying z is distributed according to G, where G comes from a dirichlet process, i saw this expression: z|G ~ G is this same meaning with z ~ G ?
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