?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=EXTENDED+BAUM+TRANSFORMATIONS+FOR+GENERAL+FUNCTIONS%2C+II&rft.creator=Kanevsky%2C+Dr+Dimitri&rft.subject=Statistical+Models&rft.description=The+discrimination+technique+for+estimating+the+parameters+of+Gaussian+mixtures+that+is+based+on+the+Extended+Baum+transformations+(EB)+has+had+significant+impact+on+the+speech+recognition+community.++The+proof+that+definitively+shows+that+these+transformations+increase+the+value+of+an+objective+function+with+iteration+(i.e.%2C+so-called+%22growth+transformations%22)+was+presented+by+the+author+two+years+ago++for+a+diagonal+Gaussian+mixture+densities.+In+this+paper+this+proof+is+extended+to+a+multidimensional+multivariate++Gaussian+mixtures.+The+proof+presented+in+the+current+paper+is+based+on+the+linearization+process+and+the+explicit+growth+estimate+for+linear+forms+of+Gaussian+mixtures.+&rft.date=2005-06&rft.type=Departmental+Technical+Report&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5058%2F1%2Frc23645.pdf&rft.identifier=++Kanevsky%2C+Dr+Dimitri++(2005)+EXTENDED+BAUM+TRANSFORMATIONS+FOR+GENERAL+FUNCTIONS%2C+II.++%5BDepartmental+Technical+Report%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5058%2F