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4.4 A Flexible Infinite <strong>Latent</strong> Feature Model<br />

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Figure 4.8: Trace plots <strong>for</strong> the Gibbs sampling using conjugacy. The sampler converges in a few<br />

iterations to the high probability regions, employing five to seven latent features.<br />

The generating value of σx is recovered.<br />

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Figure 4.9: Trace plots <strong>for</strong> the approximate Gibbs sampler not exploiting conjugacy with five<br />

auxiliary features <strong>for</strong> unique feature updates. Compared to the conjugate Gibbs<br />

sampler, the chain moves slower, especially <strong>for</strong> K. However the samples <strong>for</strong> all<br />

parameters have similar values to the samples from the conjugate Gibbs sampler.<br />

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