An Alternative Model for Mixtures of Experts

NIPS 1994: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 1994, Pages 633-640

  Xu, Lei ^a   Jordan, Michael I ^b   Hinton, Geoffrey E ^c  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EM ALGORITHMS; FAST CONVERGENCE; GRADIENT ASCENT; MIXTURE OF EXPERTS; MODIFIED MODEL; NONLINEAR FUNCTION APPROXIMATION; PARAMETRIC FORMS; PIECE-WISE; PROBLEM DOMAIN; STEP SIZE;

EID: 85140116568     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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