Dirichlet draws are sparse with high probability

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Authors: Matus Telgarsky Edit this on Wikidata


Publication date: 21 January 2013

Abstract: This note provides an elementary proof of the folklore fact that draws from a Dirichlet distribution (with parameters less than 1) are typically sparse (most coordinates are small).













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