The EM algorithm is a very popular and widely applicable algorithm for the computation of maximum likelihood estimates. Although its implementation is generally simple, the EM algorithm often exhibits ...

Conjugate gradient methods form a class of iterative algorithms that are highly effective for solving large‐scale unconstrained optimisation problems. They achieve efficiency by constructing search ...

SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Apr., 1984), pp. 352-362 (11 pages) We characterize the class CG(s) of matrices A for which the linear system Ax = b can be solved by an s-term ...