Tempered expectation maximization

Identity Notes & Concept Scope This record denotes the deterministic free-energy fitting procedure described by Hofmann, with his held-out inverse-annealing schedule as an explicit realization. Ordinary EM is its beta=1 case. The procedure changes responsibilities and parameter fitting; it is neither replica-exchange MCMC nor a supervised confidence-mask schedule, and it does not introduce a new topic-model probability family. The short TEM acronym is not asserted as a globally unambiguous alias. Compared all 442 pinned AIO labels and scoped synonyms and 418 preceding native IDs, names and aliases. The initial normalized LDA hit denotes LinearDiscriminantAnalysis, whose full Gaussian-classifier record was read; the bare LDA alias is omitted from the new topic-model record. No normalized identity match remains for the final candidate names/aliases. Final full-checkout fixed-string searches, including ignored and hidden files in both worktree and main, return two lines each; both unique contents are existing frontier references. An additional broad LDA search returned 289 worktree and 237 main lines before the preceding batch merged; all 84 distinct contents were read, covering the existing classifier, topic-context references, unrelated programming mnemonics and namespace abbreviations. All 188 semantic label/synonym hits were read. Nineteen exact annotated AIO CLASS nodes and outgoing edges were inspected (18 verified unchanged from prior reading, Biclustering read here), along with their generated records and 16 native neighbors. The 35 contextual YAMLs were read or byte-verified after documented full reading. Absence is bounded to this snapshot, maintained corpus and inspected semantic neighborhood.