cs.IT · 2026-08-23 · No. 93

Information Theory, 2026-08-23.

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    A Layered Simplex Architecture for Large Alphabets

    Meir Feder, Yaniv Fogel, Ruediger Urbanke

    cs.IT · cs.LG · stat.ML

    Probability estimation over large alphabets under log loss is a well-studied problem, with celebrated methods such as the Good-Turing estimator. We introduce and study a new Bayesian estimator with four notable properties. First, its construction is exceptionally simple: multiply independent uniform draws from the probability simplex coordinate-wise and renormalize. Depth is the only structural parameter, and averaging over depths eliminates...

    arxiv.org/abs/2608.19908 · PDF

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