Summary of Is Score Matching Suitable For Estimating Point Processes?, by Haoqun Cao et al.
Is Score Matching Suitable for Estimating Point Processes?
by Haoqun Cao, Zizhuo Meng, Tianjun Ke, Feng Zhou
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a weighted score matching estimator for point processes, addressing the limitations of existing estimators. By proving the consistency and convergence rate of this new approach, the authors demonstrate its effectiveness in estimating model parameters on synthetic and real data. In contrast, existing methods fail to perform well. The proposed estimator is shown to accurately estimate model parameters, with codes publicly available. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us better understand point processes by introducing a new way to estimate model parameters. It shows that some old ideas don’t work well for all problems and that we need a new approach. This approach works well on fake data and real data too! The people who did the research made their code available so others can try it out. |
