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# Learning Mixture of Gaussians with Streaming Data

@inproceedings{Raghunathan2017LearningMO,
title={Learning Mixture of Gaussians with Streaming Data},
author={Aditi Raghunathan and Prateek Jain and Ravishankar Krishnaswamy},
booktitle={NIPS},
year={2017}
}
• Published in NIPS 2017
• Computer Science, Mathematics
In this paper, we study the problem of learning a mixture of Gaussians with streaming data: given a stream of $N$ points in $d$ dimensions generated by an unknown mixture of $k$ spherical Gaussians, the goal is to estimate the model parameters using a single pass over the data stream. We analyze a streaming version of the popular Lloyd's heuristic and show that the algorithm estimates all the unknown centers of the component Gaussians accurately if they are sufficiently separated. Assuming each… Expand
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