A-Functions: A generalization of Extended Baum-Welch transformations to convex optimization

ICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 5164-5167

  Kanevsky, Dimitri ^a   Nahamoo, David ^a   Sainath, Tara N ^a   Ramabhadran, Bhuvana ^a   Olsen, Peder A ^a  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Convex optimization; Extended Baum Welch

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN; BAUM-WELCH; LINE SEARCHES; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; PROBABILITY FUNCTIONS; SPARSE REPRESENTATION;

CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPEECH COMMUNICATION; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

EID: 80051622448     PISSN: 15206149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.5947520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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