Practice Gmm Likelihood (5.4.1) - Latent Variable & Mixture Models - Advance Machine Learning
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GMM Likelihood

Practice - GMM Likelihood

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

What does GMM stand for?

💡 Hint: Think about the type of data it deals with.

Question 2 Easy

What is the role of the mixing coefficient in GMM?

💡 Hint: Remember, it indicates how much each component contributes.

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Question 1

What does the GMM likelihood function represent?

The total probability of observed data
The choice of clustering method
The distance between points

💡 Hint: Focus on the role of likelihood in probability.

Question 2

True or False: Soft clustering means each data point belongs exclusively to one cluster.

True
False

💡 Hint: Revisit the definition of soft clustering.

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Challenge Problems

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Challenge 1 Hard

Given a dataset with two clusters represented in a 2D space, demonstrate how you would fit a GMM to this data and explain your reasoning.

💡 Hint: Consider how the EM algorithm optimizes parameters based on observed data.

Challenge 2 Hard

Explain the impact of increasing the number of components in a GMM on model complexity and likelihood.

💡 Hint: Think about the balance between fitting the data well and maintaining a generalizable model.

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