Machine learning algorithms have been used to predict cancer progression, identify early signs of Parkinson’s disease, and ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 15, No. 6 (Dec., 1978), pp. 1247-1257 (11 pages) This paper studies the convergence of a conjugate gradient algorithm proposed in a recent paper by Shanno. It ...

The EM algorithm is a very popular and widely applicable algorithm for the computation of maximum likelihood estimates. Although its implementation is generally simple, the EM algorithm often exhibits ...