After leaving my first adventure in a robotics lab at Purdue, I did 2+ years research on machine learning. The result is two NIPS workshop papers, one proposing a non-parametric exponential family model and the other applies the model to social network analysis - exponential random graph models.
The theory of non-parametric exponential family model is more interesting, and we later submitted an extended version of the paper to arXiv.
Here’s the paper and code of non-parametric exponential family model: