An investigation of computational and informational limits in Gaussian mixture clustering

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn 148, Issue , 2006, Pages 865-872

  Srebro, Nathan ^a   Shakhnarovich, Gregory ^b   Roweis, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Brown Univerity   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL RESTRICTIONS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE; INFORMATIONAL LIMITS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 34250705300     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1143844.1143953     Document Type: Conference Paper

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