{
  "id": "1301.4917",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2013-01-21T16:27:17.000Z",
  "updated": "2013-01-21T16:27:17.000Z",
  "title": "Dirichlet draws are sparse with high probability",
  "authors": [
    "Matus Telgarsky"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages",
  "categories": [
    "cs.LG",
    "math.PR",
    "stat.ML"
  ],
  "abstract": "This note provides an elementary proof of the folklore fact that draws from a Dirichlet distribution (with parameters less than 1) are typically sparse (most coordinates are small).",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2013-01-21T16:27:17.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "high probability",
      "dirichlet draws",
      "elementary proof",
      "folklore fact"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2013arXiv1301.4917T"
    }
  }
}