How Many Clusters? An Information-Theoretic Perspective

DOI10.1162/0899766042321751zbMath1062.82045DBLPjournals/neco/StillB04arXivphysics/0303011OpenAlexW2168614937WikidataQ52969276 ScholiaQ52969276MaRDI QIDQ4664508

Susanne Still, William Bialek

Publication date: 5 April 2005

Published in: Neural Computation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0303011

zbMATH Keywords

clustering

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Pattern recognition, speech recognition (68T10) Neural nets applied to problems in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C32) Information theory (general) (94A15)

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