David Blei
Encyclopedia
David Blei is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science
at Princeton University
. His work is primarily in machine learning
.
His research interests include topic model
s and he was one of the original developers of latent Dirichlet allocation
.
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
. His work is primarily in machine learning
Machine learning
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
.
His research interests include topic model
Topic model
In machine learning and natural language processing, a topic model is a type of statistical model for discovering the abstract "topics" that occur in a collection of documents. An early topic model was probabilistic latent semantic indexing , created by Thomas Hofmann in 1999...
s and he was one of the original developers of latent Dirichlet allocation
Latent Dirichlet allocation
In statistics, latent Dirichlet allocation is a generative model that allows sets of observations to be explained by unobserved groups that explain why some parts of the data are similar...
.