Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems

Abstract

This paper presents a dynamical system based on the Poisson-Gamma construction for sequentially observed multivariate count data. Inherent to the model is a novel Bayesian nonparametric prior that ties and shrinks parameters in a powerful way. We develop theory about the model's infinite limit and its steady-state. The model's inductive bias is demonstrated on a variety of real-world datasets where it is shown to learn interpretable structure and have superior predictive performance.

Cite

Text

Schein et al. "Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2016.

Markdown

[Schein et al. "Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems." Neural Information Processing Systems, 2016.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2016/schein2016neurips-poissongamma/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{schein2016neurips-poissongamma,
  title     = {{Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems}},
  author    = {Schein, Aaron and Wallach, Hanna and Zhou, Mingyuan},
  booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year      = {2016},
  pages     = {5005-5013},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/2016/schein2016neurips-poissongamma/}
}