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A fast, universal algorithm to learn parametric nonlinear embeddings

Neural Information Processing Systems

Using the method of auxiliary coordinates, we derive a training algorithm that works by alternating steps that train an auxiliary embeddingwith steps that train the mapping.





A Locally Adaptive Normal Distribution

Neural Information Processing Systems

The underlyingmetricis,however,non-parametric.Wedevelopamaximumlikelihood algorithm to infer the distribution parameters that relies on a combination of gradient descent and Monte Carlo integration. We further extend the LAND to mixture models, andprovidethecorresponding EMalgorithm.