An alternative to EM for Gaussian mixture models: batch and stochastic Riemannian optimization

Abstract We consider maximum likelihood estimation for Gaussian Mixture Models (Gmm s). This task is almost invariably solved (in theory and practice) via the Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm. EM owes its success to various factors, of which is its ability to fulfill positive definiteness co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hosseini, Reshad, Sra, Suvrit
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/131361