Likelihood Geometry of Determinantal Point Processes

07/25/2023

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by   Hannah Friedman, et al.

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We study determinantal point processes (DPP) through the lens of algebraic statistics. We count the critical points of the log-likelihood function, and we compute them for small models, thereby disproving a conjecture of Brunel, Moitra, Rigollet and Urschel.