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.

Comments

Presented at the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Lausanne, Switzerland, June 30-July 5, 2002.

Posted with permission from IEEE.

DOI

10.1109/ISIT.2002.1023403


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