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author Chakraborty, Somnath
Narayanan, Hariharan
author_facet Chakraborty, Somnath
Narayanan, Hariharan
contents Suppose that we are given independent, identically distributed samples $x_l$ from a mixture $μ$ of no more than $k$ of $d$-dimensional spherical gaussian distributions $μ_i$ with variance $1$, such that the minimum $\ell_2$ distance between two distinct centers $y_l$ and $y_j$ is greater than $\sqrt{d} Δ$ for some $c \leq Δ$, where $c\in (0,1)$ is a small positive universal constant. We develop a randomized algorithm that learns the centers $y_l$ of the gaussians, to within an $\ell_2$ distance of $δ< \frac{Δ\sqrt{d}}{2}$ and the weights $w_l$ to within $cw_{min}$ with probability greater than $1 - \exp(-k/c)$. The number of samples and the computational time is bounded above by $poly(k, d, \frac{1}δ)$. Such a bound on the sample and computational complexity was previously unknown when $ω(1) \leq d \leq O(\log k)$. When $d = O(1)$, this follows from work of Regev and Vijayaraghavan. These authors also show that the sample complexity of learning a random mixture of gaussians in a ball of radius $Θ(\sqrt{d})$ in $d$ dimensions, when $d$ is $Θ( \log k)$ is at least $poly(k, \frac{1}δ)$, showing that our result is tight in this case.
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spellingShingle Learning Mixtures of Spherical Gaussians via Fourier Analysis
Chakraborty, Somnath
Narayanan, Hariharan
Data Structures and Algorithms
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
Suppose that we are given independent, identically distributed samples $x_l$ from a mixture $μ$ of no more than $k$ of $d$-dimensional spherical gaussian distributions $μ_i$ with variance $1$, such that the minimum $\ell_2$ distance between two distinct centers $y_l$ and $y_j$ is greater than $\sqrt{d} Δ$ for some $c \leq Δ$, where $c\in (0,1)$ is a small positive universal constant. We develop a randomized algorithm that learns the centers $y_l$ of the gaussians, to within an $\ell_2$ distance of $δ< \frac{Δ\sqrt{d}}{2}$ and the weights $w_l$ to within $cw_{min}$ with probability greater than $1 - \exp(-k/c)$. The number of samples and the computational time is bounded above by $poly(k, d, \frac{1}δ)$. Such a bound on the sample and computational complexity was previously unknown when $ω(1) \leq d \leq O(\log k)$. When $d = O(1)$, this follows from work of Regev and Vijayaraghavan. These authors also show that the sample complexity of learning a random mixture of gaussians in a ball of radius $Θ(\sqrt{d})$ in $d$ dimensions, when $d$ is $Θ( \log k)$ is at least $poly(k, \frac{1}δ)$, showing that our result is tight in this case.
title Learning Mixtures of Spherical Gaussians via Fourier Analysis
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
Machine Learning
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.05813