Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
2002
Abstract
We present an extension of Jaynes' maximum entropy principle to handle latent variables. We use an EM algorithm that incorporates nested iterative scaling to approximately calculate maximum entropy solutions for this principle, and give a proof of its convergence.
Repository Citation
Wang, S.,
Rosenfeld, R.,
Zhao, Y.,
& Schuurmans, D.
(2002). The Latent Maximum Entropy Principle. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, 131-131.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/knoesis/1013
DOI
10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023403
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Comments
Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 30-July 5, 2002.
Posted with permission from IEEE.