We propose a new method for fitting mixture models that performs component selection and does not require external initialization. The novelty of our approach includes: a minimum ...
Finite mixtures of parametric distributions are often used to model data of which it is known or suspected that there are subpopulations. Instead of a parametric model, a penalize...
The Expectation Maximization (EM) algorithm is widely used for learning finite mixture models despite its greedy nature. Most popular model-based clustering techniques might yield...
Chandan K. Reddy, Hsiao-Dong Chiang, Bala Rajaratn...
R package flexmix provides flexible modelling of finite mixtures of regression models using the EM algorithm. Several new features of the software such as fixed and nested var...
We cast model-free reinforcement learning as the problem of maximizing the likelihood of a probabilistic mixture model via sampling, addressing both the infinite and finite horizo...