Summary: Investigations of Gaussian
Products-of-Experts Models
Felix Agakov
MSc Articial Intelligence
Division of Informatics
The University of Edinburgh
September 2000

The Presentation:
1. Introduction
(a) Latent Variable Modeling
(b) Mixture Models
(c) Products of Experts (PoE)
2. Results
(a) Constrained Gaussians (hyper-disks)
(b) Probabilistic Principal Component
Analyzers (hyper-ellipsoids)
(c) Contrastive Divergence Learning (simple
and eÆcient learning rule for Gaussian models)
3. Applications

Source: Agakov, Felix - Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences