The document discusses the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm and its applications to exponential families (e-models) and mixture models (m-models). It explains that EM iteratively performs an E-step, where the expected value of the latent variables is computed, and an M-step, where the model parameters are re-estimated to maximize the likelihood. For e-models, the E-step finds the distribution that minimizes the Kullback-Leibler divergence from the posterior, while the M-step directly maximizes the likelihood. For m-models, the E-step computes the posterior distribution over components, and the M-step re-estimates the model parameters.