Very Fast EM-Based Mixture Model Clustering Using Multiresolution Kd-Trees
Andrew Moore · 1998
Clustering is importantinmany fields including manufacturing, biology, finance, and astronomy. Mixture models are a popular approach due to their statistical foundations, and EM is a very popular method for finding mixture models. EM, however, requires many accesses of the data, and thus has been dismissed as impractical (e.g. (Zhang, Ramakrishnan, & Livny, 1996)) for data mining of enormous datasets.