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jmp448 opened this issue Feb 26, 2025 · 0 comments
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Extra scale term in normalizing constant? #17

jmp448 opened this issue Feb 26, 2025 · 0 comments

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jmp448 commented Feb 26, 2025

Hello,

I have a question about the implementation of the normalizing constant of the von Mises Fisher distribution. Digging into the code, I saw that the normalizing constant seems to be computed here:

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which seems to have an extra scale term (in the third term of the output) compared to what I found in the paper:

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Could you help me understand where this scaling term comes from?

Many thanks!

Josh

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