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Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model
The Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model places prior distributions over all mixture parameters and infers their posteriors — typically via Variational Bayes or MCMC — rather than fitting fixed point estimates. This yields principled uncertainty quantification, automatic selection of the effective number of components, and resistance to overfitting small datasets.
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Sources
- Bishop, C. M. (2006). Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Ch. 10). Springer. ISBN: 978-0-387-31073-2
- Attias, H. (1999). Inferring parameters and structure of latent variable models by variational Bayes. Proceedings of the 15th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI), 21–30. link ↗