Title
On the Determination of Epsilon during Discriminative GMM Training
Abstract
Discriminative training of Gaussian Mixture Models (GMMs) for speech or speaker recognition purposes is usually based on the gradient descent method, in which the iteration step-size, epsilon, uses to be defined experimentally. In this letter, we derive an equation to adaptively determine epsilon, by showing that the second-order Newton-Raphson iterative method to find roots of equations is equivalent to the gradient descent algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ISM.2010.66
ISM
Keywords
Field
DocType
second-order newton-raphson iterative method,discriminative gmm training,gradient descent algorithm,gaussian mixture models,iteration step-size,gradient descent method,speaker recognition purpose,discriminative training,markov processes,speech processing,speech,gmm,gaussian distribution,gradient descent,iteration method,markov models,second order,newton raphson method,markov model,speech recognition,loudspeakers,acoustics,gaussian mixture model,gaussian processes,iterative method,speaker recognition,iterative methods,mathematical model,newton raphson
Speech processing,Gradient descent,Pattern recognition,Markov model,Computer science,Iterative method,Speaker recognition,Gaussian process,Artificial intelligence,Discriminative model,Mixture model
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-4217-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
6
11