Chinese restaurant processes

A form of Chinese restaurant process — A discrete-time stochastic process, analogous to seating customers at tables in a restaurant, such that, at time n, the n customers have been partitioned among m ≤ n tables (or blocks of a partition). It has applications in population genetics, linguistic analysis, and image recognition.

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noun
  1. pluralplural of Chinese restaurant process
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