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# Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families

@article{Sriperumbudur2017DensityEI,
title={Density Estimation in Infinite Dimensional Exponential Families},
author={Bharath K. Sriperumbudur and Kenji Fukumizu and Arthur Gretton and Aapo Hyv{\"a}rinen and Revant Kumar},
journal={J. Mach. Learn. Res.},
year={2017},
volume={18},
pages={57:1-57:59}
}
• Published 12 December 2013
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• J. Mach. Learn. Res.
In this paper, we consider an infinite dimensional exponential family, $\mathcal{P}$ of probability densities, which are parametrized by functions in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space, $H$ and show it to be quite rich in the sense that a broad class of densities on $\mathbb{R}^d$ can be approximated arbitrarily well in Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence by elements in $\mathcal{P}$. The main goal of the paper is to estimate an unknown density, $p_0$ through an element in $\mathcal{P}$. Standard…

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