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Double spike Dirichlet priors for structured weighting.

@article{Lin2020DoubleSD,
title={Double spike Dirichlet priors for structured weighting.},
author={Huiming Lin and Meng Li},
journal={arXiv: Methodology},
year={2020}
}
• Published 8 July 2020
• Computer Science
• arXiv: Methodology
Assigning weights to a large pool of objects is a fundamental task in a wide variety of applications. In this article, we introduce a concept of structured high-dimensional probability simplexes, whose most components are zero or near zero and the remaining ones are close to each other. Such structure is well motivated by 1) high-dimensional weights that are common in modern applications, and 2) ubiquitous examples in which equal weights---despite their simplicity---often achieve favorable or…

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