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Publication Detail
A kernel Stein test of goodness of fit for sequential models
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Publication Type:Working discussion paper
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Authors:Baum J, Kanagawa H, Gretton A
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Publisher:arXiv
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Keyword:stat.ML, stat.ML, cs.LG, stat.CO
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Publisher URL:
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Notes:13 pages
Abstract
We propose a goodness-of-fit measure for probability densities modelling
observations with varying dimensionality, such as text documents of differing
lengths or variable-length sequences. The proposed measure is an instance of
the kernel Stein discrepancy (KSD), which has been used to construct
goodness-of-fit tests for unnormalised densities. Existing KSDs require the
model to be defined on a fixed-dimension space. As our major contributions, we
extend the KSD to the variable dimension setting by identifying appropriate
Stein operators, and propose a novel KSD goodness-of-fit test. As with the
previous variants, the proposed KSD does not require the density to be
normalised, allowing the evaluation of a large class of models. Our test is
shown to perform well in practice on discrete sequential data benchmarks.
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