AI & MLCoreAIML-PGM-005
Expectation-Maximization
Maximum likelihood with hidden variables: alternate guessing the hidden values and refitting the parameters.
- Difficulty
- 2 / 5
- Importance
- 5 / 5
- Study time
- 1–2 h
- Kind of work
- Mixed
Why it matters
The learner can describe the E-step and M-step for a latent-variable model and explain why each never decreases the likelihood.