Mixtures of Experts Estimate a Posteriori Probabilities Mixtures of Experts Estimate a Posteriori Probabilities
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The mixtures of experts (ME) model ooers a modular structure suitable for a divide-and-conquer approach to pattern recognition. It has a probabilistic interpretation in terms of a mixture model, which forms the basis for the error function associated with MEs. In this paper, it is shown that for classiication problems the minimization of this ME error function leads to ME outputs estimating the a posteriori probabilities of class membership of the input vector.
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Mixtures of Experts Estimate A Posteriori Probabilities
The mixtures of experts (ME) model ooers a modular structure suitable for a divide-and-conquer approach to pattern recognition. It has a probabilistic interpretation in terms of a mixture model, which forms the basis for the error function associated with MEs. In this paper, it is shown that for classiication problems the minimization of this ME error function leads to ME outputs estimating the...
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