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K-Means Seeding for EM Initialization

Running k-means first and initializing each component's mean at a cluster centroid, its covariance from the cluster's scatter, and its weight from cluster sizes gives EM a start near a good basin; random initialization with multiple restarts is the fallback.

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Running k-means first and initializing each component's mean at a cluster centroid, its covariance from the cluster's scatter, and its weight from cluster sizes gives EM a start near a good basin; random initialization with multiple restarts is the fallback.

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