Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8 (NIPS 1995)
Joshua Tenenbaum
The additive clustering (ADCL US) model (Shepard & Arabie, 1979) treats the similarity of two stimuli as a weighted additive measure of their common features. Inspired by recent work in unsupervised learning with multiple cause models, we propose anew, statistically well-motivated algorithm for discovering the structure of natural stimulus classes using the ADCLUS model, which promises substan(cid:173) tial gains in conceptual simplicity, practical efficiency, and solution quality over earlier efforts. We also present preliminary results with artificial data and two classic similarity data sets.