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ICML
2003
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Optimization with EM and Expectation-Conjugate-Gradient
We show a close relationship between the Expectation - Maximization (EM) algorithm and direct optimization algorithms such as gradientbased methods for parameter learning. We iden...
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Sam T. Roweis, Zoubin Ghahra...
ICML
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Unsupervised estimation for noisy-channel models
Shannon's Noisy-Channel model, which describes how a corrupted message might be reconstructed, has been the corner stone for much work in statistical language and speech proc...
Markos Mylonakis, Khalil Sima'an, Rebecca Hwa