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After having implemented k-means ~5 times in undergraduate classes, it was interesting to learn that k-means is just a special case of expectation maximization.
by jdeaton 5y ago
After having implemented k-means ~5 times in undergraduate classes, it was interesting to learn that k-means is just a special case of expectation maximization.
- petters 5y ago...which in turn is just a special case of block coordinate descent. One set of variables is fixed, while another set is optimized and vice versa.