Hyperprior

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A prior distribution on a hyperparameter.

    "If we have a hyperprior for λ, the extension is quite easy: we can sample from this hyperprior, apply the procedure for each sample based on p(w; λ), and average over samples."

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"If we have a hyperprior for λ, the extension is quite easy: we can sample from this hyperprior, apply the procedure for each sample based on p(w; λ), and average over samples."

Etymology

From hyper- + prior.

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