Question on Hyperparameter Selection

[kgullikson88]

I recently came across this paper on arxiv, and then found the implementation here - great work! I was wondering if you could give any guidance on hyperparameter selection, especially the alpha parameter? I don't see its mention in the original paper, and it seems to act like a regularization strength. Small values tend to force all mixture components to be the same, while larger values allow for different means/variances. Do you have any further insights in how to set that parameter?

[wzm2256]

I have the same problem as you. I think the paper hides too much details, including the variance of the results, the hyper parameters.