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Exponential Family Embeddings

NeurIPS 2016 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Tractable probabilistic models · 74 citations (OpenAlex)

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What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Model each neuron from the activities of nearby neurons in its contextGaussian embeddings · Zebrafish neural activity, single neuron and 25% held outmean squared error: FA: 0.290±0.003; Gaussian embedding (c=50, K=100): 0.222±0.002 (single neuron); 0.232 ± 0.003 (25% held out)Helped
Increase context size from c=10 to c=50 (ablation)Gaussian embeddings · Zebrafish neural activitymean squared error: 0.239±0.006 -> 0.227±0.002 (K=10, single neuron); 0.246 ± 0.004 -> 0.235 ± 0.003 (K=10, 25% held out)Helped
Increase latent dimension from K=10 to K=100 (ablation)Gaussian embeddings with c=50 · Zebrafish neural activitymean squared error: 0.227±0.002 -> 0.222±0.002 (single neuron); 0.235 ± 0.003 -> 0.232 ± 0.003 (25% held out)Helped
Constrain the Gaussian embedding vectors to be nonnegative (ablation)Gaussian embeddings · Zebrafish neural activity, single neuron held outmean squared error: 0.239±0.006 -> 0.263±0.004 (c=10, K=10); 0.222±0.002 -> 0.261±0.004 (K=100 comparison)Hurt
Downweight zero entries by a factor of 0.1 (ablation)Poisson embeddings · Market basket held-out datanormalized predictive log-likelihood: -7.497±0.007 -> -7.110±0.007 (K=20); -7.199±0.008 -> -6.950±0.007 (K=100)Helped
Downweight zero entries by a factor of 0.1 (ablation)Poisson embeddings · MovieLens-100K held-out ratingsnormalized predictive log-likelihood: -5.691±0.006 -> -5.790±0.003 (K=20); -5.726±0.005 -> -5.798±0.003 (K=100)Hurt
Use Poisson embeddings rather than HPF or Poisson PCAPoisson embeddings · Market basket held-out datanormalized predictive log-likelihood: -7.199±0.008 vs. HPF -7.626±0.007 and Poisson PCA -11.01±0.01 (K=100)Helped
Use Poisson embeddings rather than HPF or Poisson PCAPoisson embeddings · MovieLens-100K held-out ratingsnormalized predictive log-likelihood: -5.691±0.006 vs. HPF -5.787±0.006 and Poisson PCA -5.908±0.006 (K=20)Helped
Replace the multiplicative Poisson parameterization with the additive parameterization (ablation)Poisson embeddings · Market basket held-out datanormalized predictive log-likelihood: -7.497±0.007 -> -7.868±0.005 (K=20); -7.199±0.008 -> -8.414±0.003 (K=100)Hurt
Replace the multiplicative Poisson parameterization with the additive parameterization (ablation)Poisson embeddings · MovieLens-100K held-out ratingsnormalized predictive log-likelihood: -5.691±0.006 -> -5.964±0.003 (K=20); -5.726±0.005 -> -6.118±0.002 (K=100)Hurt
Increase latent dimension from K=20 to K=100 (ablation)Poisson embeddings · MovieLens-100K held-out ratingsnormalized predictive log-likelihood: -5.691±0.006 -> -5.726±0.005Hurt

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