ANN: logfloat 0.13.3
Henning Thielemann
lemming at henning-thielemann.de
Mon Mar 30 08:38:56 UTC 2015
On Sun, 29 Mar 2015, wren romano wrote:
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> -- logfloat 0.13.3
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>
> This package provides a type for storing numbers in the log-domain,
> primarily useful for preventing underflow when multiplying many
> probabilities as in HMMs and other probabilistic models. The package
> also provides modules for dealing with floating numbers correctly.
I am currently working on
http://hub.darcs.net/thielema/hmm-hmatrix
It does not need log-numbers because it normalizes all temporary results.
This way I can use fast hmatrix operations. Would normalization also be a
solution for other probabilistic models?
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