arXiv Machine Learning

Dendrograms of Mixing Measures for Softmax-Gated Gaussian Mixture of Experts: Consistency Without Model Sweeps

arXiv:2510. 12744v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We develop a unified statistical framework for softmax-gated Gaussian mixture of experts (SGMoE) that addresses three long-standing obstacles in parameter estimation and model selection: (i) non-identifiability of gating parameters up to common translations, (ii) intrinsic gate-expert interactions that induce coupled differential relations in the likelihood, and (iii) the tight numerator-denominator coupling in the softmax-induced conditional density.

arXiv Statistics ML
Sep 2

Deep Skew-t Mixture Models

arXiv:2609.00773v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-dimensional clustering is challenging when component distributions are both heavy-tailed and directionally asymmetric. We propose a deep skew-$t...

By Jinran Wu, You-Gan Wang, Geoffrey J. McLachlan
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

Amortized Bandwidth Learning for Kernel Density Estimation under Logarithmic Score

The paper introduces an amortized learning framework for selecting bandwidths in kernel density estimation by optimizing the logarithmic score across a distribution of tasks. It uses a truncated-and-renormalized bounded-support formulation and affine standardization to achieve stable learning and transferability across different intervals. Experiments on Gaussian samples, a multi-family benchmark, and randomized Gaussian mixtures demonstrate that the learned selector outperforms traditional methods such as Silverman’s rule, Sheather–Jones, and least‑squares cross‑validation, especially for small or heterogeneous samples.

By Junyi Liang, Hailiang Du