Nonparametric e-mixture estimation

Ken Takano, Hideitsu Hino, Shotaro Akaho, Noboru Murata

研究成果: Letter査読

8 被引用数 (Scopus)

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This study considers the common situation in data analysis when there are few observations of the distribution of interest or the target distribution, while abundant observations are available from auxiliary distributions. In this situation, it is natural to compensate for the lack of data from the target distribution by using data sets from these auxiliary distributions-in other words, approximating the target distribution in a subspace spanned by a set of auxiliary distributions. Mixture modeling is one of the simplest ways to integrate information from the target and auxiliary distributions in order to express the target distribution as accurately as possible. There are two typical mixtures in the context of information geometry: the m- and e-mixtures. The m-mixture is applied in a variety of research fields because of the presence of the well-known expectation-maximazation algorithm for parameter estimation, whereas the e-mixture is rarely used because of its difficulty of estimation, particularly for nonparametric models. The e-mixture, however, is a welltempered distribution that satisfies the principle of maximum entropy. To model a target distribution with scarce observations accurately, this letter proposes a novel framework for a nonparametric modeling of the emixture and a geometrically inspired estimation algorithm. As numerical examples of the proposed framework, a transfer learning setup is considered. The experimental results show that this framework works well for three types of synthetic data sets, as well as an EEG real-world data set.

本文言語English
ページ(範囲)2687-2725
ページ数39
ジャーナルNeural Computation
28
12
DOI
出版ステータスPublished - 2016 12月 1

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 人文科学(その他)
  • 認知神経科学

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