The continuous categorical: a novel simplex-valued exponential family.

Elliott Gordon-Rodríguez Gabriel Loaiza-Ganem John P. Cunningham

Published in: ICML (2020)

Keyphrases

exponential family
maximum likelihood
density estimation
graphical models
log likelihood
statistical models
closed form
missing values
mixture model
order statistics
hidden variables
probabilistic model
statistical model
conditional random fields
markov chain monte carlo
variational methods