A hybrid sampler for Poisson-Kingman mixture models

Authors: Maria Lomeli, Stefano Favaro, Yee Whye Teh

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental We describe comparative simulation results demonstrating the efficacy of the proposed MCMC algorithm against existing marginal and conditional MCMC samplers. We used the dataset from Roeder [26] to test the algorithmic performance in terms of running time and effective sample size (ESS), as Table 1 shows.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Mar ıa Lomel ı Gatsby Unit University College London mlomeli@gatsby.ucl.ac.uk Stefano Favaro Department of Economics and Statistics University of Torino and Collegio Carlo Alberto stefano.favaro@unito.it Yee Whye Teh Department of Statistics University of Oxford y.w.teh@stats.ox.ac.uk
Pseudocode Yes see Algorithm 1 in the supplementary material for details. see Algorithm 2 in the supplementary material for details. see Algorithm 4 in the supplementary material for details.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide any explicit statement about open-sourcing their code or provide a link to a code repository.
Open Datasets Yes We used the dataset from Roeder [26] to test the algorithmic performance in terms of running time and effective sample size (ESS), as Table 1 shows. The dataset consists of measurements of velocities in km/sec of n 82 galaxies from a survey of the Corona Borealis region.
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions using a dataset for testing but does not provide specific details on training, validation, or test splits (e.g., percentages or sample counts).
Hardware Specification No The paper does not provide specific hardware details (e.g., GPU/CPU models, memory) used for running the experiments.
Software Dependencies No The paper does not list specific software dependencies with version numbers that would be needed for replication.
Experiment Setup No The paper does not explicitly provide details about the experimental setup, such as specific hyperparameter values, learning rates, or training configurations.