We are excited to announce that our paper “Baxter permutation process” has been accepted to NeurIPS2020 as a spotlight presentation.
In this paper, a Bayesian nonparametric model for Baxter permutations (BPs), termed BP process (BPP) is proposed and applied to relational data analysis. The BPs are a well-studied class of permutations, and it has been demonstrated that there is one-to-one correspondence between BPs and several interesting objects including floorplan partitioning (FP), which constitutes a subset of rectangular partitioning (RP). Accordingly, the BPP can be used as a floorplan partitioning (FP) model.
We combine the BPP with a multi-dimensional extension of the stick-breaking process called the block-breaking process to fill the gap between FPs and RPs, and obtain a stochastic process on arbitrary rectangular partitionings. Compared with conventional Bayesian nonparametric models for arbitrary rectangular partitionings, the proposed model is simpler and has a high affinity with Bayesian inference.
You can find a pre-proceedings paper at NeurIPS2020 Pre-Proceedings
and a MATLAB/Python implementations at GitHub.
