Dimension of Marginals of Kronecker Product Models

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DOI10.1137/16M1077489zbMATH Open1383.14019arXiv1511.03570MaRDI QIDQ5347296FDOQ5347296

Guido Montúfar, Jason Morton

Publication date: 23 May 2017

Published in: SIAM Journal on Applied Algebra and Geometry (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: A Kronecker product model is the set of visible marginal probability distributions of an exponential family whose sufficient statistics matrix factorizes as a Kronecker product of two matrices, one for the visible variables and one for the hidden variables. We estimate the dimension of these models by the maximum rank of the Jacobian in the limit of large parameters. The limit is described by the tropical morphism; a piecewise linear map with pieces corresponding to slicings of the visible matrix by the normal fan of the hidden matrix. We obtain combinatorial conditions under which the model has the expected dimension, equal to the minimum of the number of natural parameters and the dimension of the ambient probability simplex. Additionally, we prove that the binary restricted Boltzmann machine always has the expected dimension.


Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.03570





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