AI RESEARCH
Momentum SVGD-EM for Accelerated Maximum Marginal Likelihood Estimation
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2603.08676v1 Announce Type: cross Maximum marginal likelihood estimation (MMLE) can be formulated as the optimization of a free energy functional. From this viewpoint, the Expectation-Maximisation (EM) algorithm admits a natural interpretation as a coordinate descent method over the joint space of model parameters and probability measures. Recently, a significant body of work has adopted this perspective, leading to interacting particle algorithms for MMLE. In this paper, we propose an accelerated version of one such procedure, based on Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD), by.