A Unified Maximum Likelihood Approach for Estimating Symmetric Properties of Discrete Distributions

no code implementations • ICML 2017 • Jayadev Acharya, Hirakendu Das, Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh

Symmetric distribution properties such as support size, support coverage, entropy, and proximity to uniformity, arise in many applications.

A Unified Maximum Likelihood Approach for Optimal Distribution Property Estimation

no code implementations • 9 Nov 2016 • Jayadev Acharya, Hirakendu Das, Alon Orlitsky, Ananda Theertha Suresh

The advent of data science has spurred interest in estimating properties of distributions over large alphabets.