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BMCBI
2010
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Genomic selection and complex trait prediction using a fast EM algorithm applied to genome-wide markers
Background: The information provided by dense genome-wide markers using high throughput technology is of considerable potential in human disease studies and livestock breeding pro...
Ross K. Shepherd, Theo H. E. Meuwissen, John A. Wo...
DICTA
2009
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Multivariate Skew t Mixture Models: Applications to Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting Data
In many applied problems in the context of pattern recognition, the data often involve highly asymmetric observations. Normal mixture models tend to overfit when additional compone...
Kui Wang, Shu-Kay Ng, Geoffrey J. McLachlan
BMEI
2009
IEEE
13 years 5 months ago
A Kurtosis and Skewness Based Criterion for Model Selection on Gaussian Mixture
The Gaussian mixture model is a powerful statistical tool in data modeling and analysis. Generally, the EM algorithm is utilized to learn the parameters of the Gaussian mixture. Ho...
Lin Wang, Jinwen Ma
NIPS
1994
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Convergence Properties of the K-Means Algorithms
This paper studies the convergence properties of the well known K-Means clustering algorithm. The K-Means algorithm can be described either as a gradient descent algorithmor by sl...
Léon Bottou, Yoshua Bengio
UAI
1998
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An Experimental Comparison of Several Clustering and Initialization Methods
We examine methods for clustering in high dimensions. In the first part of the paper, we perform an experimental comparison between three batch clustering algorithms: the Expectat...
Marina Meila, David Heckerman
AAAI
1998
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Knowledge Lean Word-Sense Disambiguation
We present a corpus{based approach to word{sense disambiguation that only requires information that can be automatically extracted from untagged text. We use unsupervised techniqu...
Ted Pedersen, Rebecca F. Bruce
NIPS
2003
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Approximate Expectation Maximization
We discuss the integration of the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm for maximum likelihood learning of Bayesian networks with belief propagation algorithms for approximate i...
Tom Heskes, Onno Zoeter, Wim Wiegerinck
NIPS
2004
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Newscast EM
We propose a gossip-based distributed algorithm for Gaussian mixture learning, Newscast EM. The algorithm operates on network topologies where each node observes a local quantity ...
Wojtek Kowalczyk, Nikos A. Vlassis
SDM
2008
SIAM
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Integration of Multiple Networks for Robust Label Propagation
Transductive inference on graphs such as label propagation algorithms is receiving a lot of attention. In this paper, we address a label propagation problem on multiple networks a...
Tsuyoshi Kato, Hisashi Kashima, Masashi Sugiyama
ICGI
1994
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Computer Assisted Grammar Construction
: This paper proposes a new inference approach for Chinese probabilistic context-free grammar, which implements the EM algorithm based on the bracket matching schemes. By utilizing...
S. J. Young, H.-H. Shih