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Ted Dunning commented on MAHOUT-30:
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Jeff,
These look like really nice refactorings. The process is nice and clear.
The only key trick that may confuse people is that each step is a sampling.
Thus assignment to clusters does NOT assign to the best cluster, it picks a
cluster at random, biased by the mixture parameters and model pdf's. Likewise,
model computation does NOT compute the best model, it samples from the
distribution given by the data. Same is true for the mixture parameters.
Your code does this. I just think that this is a hard point for people to
understand in these techniques.
> dirichlet process implementation
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> Key: MAHOUT-30
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-30
> Project: Mahout
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Clustering
> Reporter: Isabel Drost
> Attachments: MAHOUT-30.patch
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> Copied over from original issue:
> > Further extension can also be made by assuming an infinite mixture model.
> > The implementation is only slightly more difficult and the result is a
> > (nearly)
> > non-parametric clustering algorithm.
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