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Nested Chinese Restaurant Franchise Processes: Applications to User Tracking and Document Modeling Amr Ahmed amra@ Research @ Google Linagjie Hong liangjie@ Yahoo! Labs Alexander J. Smola alex@ Carnegie Mellon University Abstract sign models that account for both modalities jointly. It is reasonable to assume that there exists some de- Much natural data is hierarchical in nature. gree of correlation between content and location and Moreover, this hierarchy is often shared be- moreover, that this distribution be user-specific. tween different instances. We introduce the nested Chinese Restaurant Franchise Process Likewise, longer documents contain a mix of topics, to obtain both hierarchical tree-structured albeit not necessarily at the same level of differenti- representations for objects, akin to (but more ation between different topics. That is, some docu- general than) the nested Chinese Restaurant ments might address, amongst other aspects, the issue Process while sharing their structure akin to of computer science, albeit one of them in entire gen- the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process. erality while another one might delve into very specific Moreover, by decoupling the