Showing papers on "Hierarchical Dirichlet process published in 2002"

A family of densities derived from the three-parameter dirichlet process

Abstract: The traditional Dirichlet process is characterized by its distribution on a measurable partition of the state space-namely, the Dirichlet distribution. In this paper, we consider a generalization of the Dirichlet process and the family of multivariate distributions it induces, with particular attention to a special case where the multivariate density function is tractable.

On the Dirichlet problem with several volume constraints on the level sets

Abstract: We consider minimization problems involving the Dirichlet integral under an arbitrary number of volume constraints on the level sets and a generalized boundary condition. More precisely, given a bounded open domain Ω ⊂ Rn with smooth boundary, we study the problem of minimizing ∫Ω |∇u|2 among all those functions u ∈ H1 that simultaneously satisfy n-dimensional measure constraints on the level sets of the kind |{u = li}| = αi, i = 1,…, k, and a generalized boundary condition u ∈ K. Here, K is a closed convex subset of H1 such that ; the invariance of K under provides that the condition u ∈ K actually depends only on the trace of u along ∂Ω. By a penalization approach, we prove the existence of minimizers and their Hölder continuity, generalizing previous results that are not applicable when a boundary condition is prescribed. Finally, in the case of just two volume constraints, we investigate the Γ-convergence of the above (rescaled) functionals when the total measure of the two prescribed level sets tends to saturate the whole domain Ω. It turns out that the resulting Γ-limit functional can be split into two distinct parts: the perimeter of the interface due to the Dirichlet energy that concentrates along the jump, and a boundary integral term due to the constraint u ∈ K. In the particular case where K = H1 (i.e. when no boundary condition is prescribed), the boundary term vanishes and we recover a previous result due to Ambrosio et al.