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pith:JXFUPBHP

pith:2019:JXFUPBHPNW64ZJA2SYOVSX7TIY

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Randomly initialized EM algorithm for two-component Gaussian mixture achieves near optimality in $O(\sqrt{n})$ iterations

Harrison H. Zhou, Yihong Wu

arxiv:1908.10935 v1 · 2019-08-28 · math.ST · cs.IT · math.IT · stat.ML · stat.TH

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:00:28.709453Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
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Canonical hash

4dcb4784ef6dbdcca41a961d595ff34603e05bb2766ae709b4fb711e69a9b189

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arxiv: 1908.10935 · arxiv_version: 1908.10935v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.10935 · pith_short_12: JXFUPBHPNW64 · pith_short_16: JXFUPBHPNW64ZJA2 · pith_short_8: JXFUPBHP

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JXFUPBHPNW64ZJA2SYOVSX7TIY \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4dcb4784ef6dbdcca41a961d595ff34603e05bb2766ae709b4fb711e69a9b189

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    "primary_cat": "math.ST",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-28T20:44:19Z",
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