# Berg-Kirkpatrick 2013: Decipherment with a Million Random Restarts

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# Decipherment with a Million Random Restarts

Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Dan Klein, 2013. _Proceedings of the 2013 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing_.

Shows that running EM-based decipherment from a very large number of random starting points greatly improves results on homophonic ciphers, including the Zodiac 408.

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