Polynomial learning of distribution families

Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science, FOCS

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 103-112

  Belkin, Mikhail ^a   Sinha, Kaushik ^a  

^a Ohio State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Gaussian mixture learning; Polynomial learnability

Indexed keywords

DIMENSIONALITY REDUCTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION;

DETERMINISTIC ALGORITHMS; GAUSSIAN MIXTURE DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN MIXTURES; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; POLYNOMIAL LEARNABILITY; POLYNOMIAL NUMBER; REAL ALGEBRAIC GEOMETRY; THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 78751519918     PISSN: 02725428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/FOCS.2010.16     Document Type: Conference Paper

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