Learning k-modal distributions via testing

Proceedings of the Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1371-1385

  Daskalakis, Constantinos ^a   Diakonikolas, Ilias ^b   Servedio, Rocco A ^c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; HIGH PROBABILITY; INDEPENDENT SAMPLES; NATURAL GENERALIZATION; NUMBER OF SAMPLES; PROBABILITY THEORY; PROPERTY TESTER; PROPERTY-TESTING;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 84860127084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1137/1.9781611973099.108     Document Type: Conference Paper

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