Annealing and the Rate Distortion Problem
Parker, Albert E., Gedeon, Tomá\v S., Dimitrov, Alexander G.
–Neural Information Processing Systems
In this paper we introduce methodology to determine the bifurcation structure of optima for a class of similar cost functions from Rate Distortion Theory, Deterministic Annealing,Information Distortion and the Information Bottleneck Method. We also introduce a numerical algorithm which uses the explicit form of the bifurcating branchesto find optima at a bifurcation point.
Neural Information Processing Systems
Dec-31-2003