It doesn’t, modulo practical concerns that ofer brings up below. Also the math is often nicer in log space (since you have a sum over log probabilities of data points, instead of a product over probabilities of data points). But yes, formally they are equivalent.
It doesn’t, modulo practical concerns that ofer brings up below. Also the math is often nicer in log space (since you have a sum over log probabilities of data points, instead of a product over probabilities of data points). But yes, formally they are equivalent.