Finding the Mode of a Kernel Density Estimate

Jasper C. H. Lee, Jerry Li, Christopher Musco +2

Given points $p_1,\dots ,p_n$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$, how do we find a point $x$ which maximizes $\frac{1}{n}{\sum }_{i=1}^n{e}^{-\Vert p_i-x{\Vert }^2}$? In other words, how do we find the maxim…