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Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Mixtures of Spherical Gaussians is NP-hard

Christopher Tosh, Sanjoy Dasgupta

Journal of Machine Learning Research · 2017 · Volume 18

Abstract

This paper presents NP-hardness and hardness of approximation results for maximum likelihood estimation of mixtures of spherical Gaussians.

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