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Unsupervised Selection and Estimation of Finite Mixture Models

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Unsupervised Selection and Estimation of Finite Mixture Models
We propose a new method for fitting mixture models that performs component selection and does not require external initialization. The novelty of our approach includes: a minimum message length (MML) type model selection criterion; the inclusion of the criterion into the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm (which also increases its ability to escape from local maxima); an initialization strategy supported on the interpretation of EM as a self-annealing algorithm.
Anil K. Jain, Mário A. T. Figueiredo
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Year 2000
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Authors Anil K. Jain, Mário A. T. Figueiredo
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