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2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks
Fast parzen window density estimator
Atlanta, Ga, USA
June 14-June 19
ISBN: 978-1-4244-3548-7
Xiaoxia Wang, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Peter Tino, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK
Mark A. Fardal, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Massachusetts, USA
Somak Raychaudhury, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, UK
Arif Babul, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria, Canada
Parzen Windows (PW) is a popular nonparametric density estimation technique. In general the smoothing kernel is placed on all available data points, which makes the algorithm computationally expensive when large datasets are considered. Several approaches have been proposed in the past to reduce the computational cost of PW either by subsampling the dataset, or by imposing a sparsity in the density model. Typically the latter requires a rather involved and complex learning process. In this paper, we propose a new simple and efficient kernel-based method for non-parametric probability density function (pdf) estimation on large datasets. We cover the entire data space by a set of fixed radii hyper-balls with densities represented by full covariance Gaussians. The accuracy and efficiency of the new estimator is verified on both synthetic dataset and large datasets of astronomical simulations of the galaxy disruption process. Experiments demonstrate that the estimation accuracy of the new estimator is comparable to that of the previous approaches but with a significant speed-up. We also show that the pdf learnt by the new estimator could used to automatically find the most matching set in large scale astronomical simulations.
Citation:
Xiaoxia Wang, Peter Tino, Mark A. Fardal, Somak Raychaudhury, Arif Babul, "Fast parzen window density estimator," ijcnn, pp.3267-3274, 2009 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2009
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