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SUMMARY:The Infinite Gaussian Mixture Model - Philipp Hennig (University o
 f Cambridge)
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CONTACT:Emli-Mari Nel
DESCRIPTION:For this week's journal club\, I would like to re-visit the by
  now canonical Dirichlet Process Gaussian mixture. The paper can e.g. be f
 ound at\n\nhttp://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.111.99
 3&rep=rep1&type=pdf\n\nor\, tellingly\, at\nhttp://www.inference.phy.cam.a
 c.uk/is/donut/infinite/InfiniteGaussianMixtureModel.ps\n\nMost of us have 
 seen this model before\, but many  (including myself) have never actually 
 implemented it. I will try to prepare some code\, and hope that we will be
  able to do some actual computing during the session\, to understand some 
 of the pitfalls of MCMC inference in this otherwise conceptually very clea
 n model.
LOCATION:TCM Seminar Room\, Cavendish Laboratory\, Department of Physics
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