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5. The simplified version of Q(θ,θ*) Equation 5. finally shows the usefulness of Q(θ,θ*) because, unlike Equation 3, no terms in the summation are conditioned on both Z and θ. In the equation above, the left-most term is the soft latent assignments and the right-most term is the log product of the