Choice of Basis for Laplace Approximation
David J C MacKay
Maximum a posteriori optimization of parameters and the Laplace
approximation for the marginal likelihood are both
basis-dependent methods.
In this note I demonstrate that in the case of models
parameterized by probabilities there is a better choice for
the basis than the traditional choice.
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