On the Slow Convergence of EM and VBEM in Low-Noise Linear Models

  • Authors:
  • Kaare Brandt Petersen;Ole Winther;Lars Kai Hansen

  • Affiliations:
  • Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, Building 321, DK = 2300 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark;Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, Building 321, DK = 2300 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark;Informatics and Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, Building 321, DK = 2300 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • Neural Computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We develop the general, multivariate case of the Edgeworth approximation of differential entropy and show that it can be more accurate than the nearest-neighbor method in the multivariate case and that it scales better with sample size. Furthermore, ...