The algorithms provide an exponential speed-up over the best currently known classical algorithms for topological data analysis.

Tony F. Chan, Gene H. Golub, Randall J. LeVeque, Algorithms for Computing the Sample Variance: Analysis and Recommendations, The American Statistician, Vol. 37, No. 3 ...

The relation between the Monte Carlo EM (MCEM) algorithm and the data augmentation algorithm is noted. Two modifications to the MCEM algorithm (the poor man's data augmentation algorithms), which ...