Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 (NIPS 2008)
Daniel M. Roy, Yee Teh
We describe a novel stochastic process that can be used to construct a multidimensional generalization of the stick-breaking process and which is related to the classic stick breaking process described by Sethuraman1994 in one dimension. We describe how the process can be applied to relational data modeling using the de Finetti representation for infinitely and partially exchangeable arrays.