Learning Theory [[electronic resource] ] : 18th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2005, Bertinoro, Italy, June 27-30, 2005, Proceedings / / edited by Peter Auer, Ron Meir

• Record Nr.: UNISA996466162403316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2005
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2005.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XII, 692 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 3559
• Disciplina: 006.3
• Soggetti: Artificial intelligence; Computers; Algorithms; Mathematical logic; Artificial Intelligence; Computation by Abstract Devices; Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Learning to Rank -- Ranking and Scoring Using Empirical Risk Minimization -- Learnability of Bipartite Ranking Functions -- Stability and Generalization of Bipartite Ranking Algorithms -- Loss Bounds for Online Category Ranking -- Boosting -- Margin-Based Ranking Meets Boosting in the Middle -- Martingale Boosting -- The Value of Agreement, a New Boosting Algorithm -- Unlabeled Data, Multiclass Classification -- A PAC-Style Model for Learning from Labeled and Unlabeled Data -- Generalization Error Bounds Using Unlabeled Data -- On the Consistency of Multiclass Classification Methods -- Sensitive Error Correcting Output Codes -- Online Learning I -- Data Dependent Concentration Bounds for Sequential Prediction Algorithms -- The Weak Aggregating Algorithm and Weak Mixability -- Tracking the Best of Many Experts -- Improved Second-Order Bounds for Prediction with Expert Advice -- Online Learning II -- Competitive Collaborative ; Learning -- Analysis of Perceptron-Based Active Learning -- A New Perspective on an Old Perceptron Algorithm -- Support Vector Machines -- Fast Rates for Support Vector Machines -- Exponential Convergence Rates in Classification -- General Polynomial Time Decomposition Algorithms -- Kernels and Embeddings -- Approximating a Gram Matrix for Improved Kernel-Based Learning -- Learning Convex Combinations of Continuously Parameterized Basic Kernels -- On the Limitations of Embedding Methods -- Leaving the Span -- Inductive Inference -- Variations on U-Shaped Learning -- Mind Change Efficient Learning -- On a Syntactic Characterization of Classification with a Mind Change Bound -- Unsupervised Learning -- Ellipsoid Approximation Using Random Vectors -- The Spectral Method for General Mixture Models -- On Spectral Learning of Mixtures of Distributions -- From Graphs to Manifolds – Weak and Strong Pointwise Consistency of Graph Laplacians -- Towards a Theoretical Foundation for Laplacian-Based Manifold Methods -- Generalization Bounds -- Permutation Tests for Classification -- Localized Upper and Lower Bounds for Some Estimation Problems -- Improved Minimax Bounds on the Test and Training Distortion of Empirically Designed Vector Quantizers -- Rank, Trace-Norm and Max-Norm -- Query Learning, Attribute Efficiency, Compression Schemes -- Learning a Hidden Hypergraph -- On Attribute Efficient and Non-adaptive Learning of Parities and DNF Expressions -- Unlabeled Compression Schemes for Maximum Classes -- Economics and Game Theory -- Trading in Markovian Price Models -- From External to Internal Regret -- Separation Results for Learning Models -- Separating Models of Learning from Correlated and Uncorrelated Data -- Asymptotic Log-Loss of Prequential Maximum Likelihood Codes -- Teaching Classes with High Teaching Dimension Using Few Examples -- Open Problems -- Optimum Follow the Leader Algorithm -- The Cross Validation Problem -- Compute Inclusion Depth of a Pattern.
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume contains papers presented at the Eighteenth Annual Conference on Learning Theory (previously known as the Conference on Computational Learning Theory) held in Bertinoro, Italy from June 27 to 30, 2005. The technical program contained 45 papers selected from 120 submissions, 3 open problems selected from among 5 contributed, and 2 invited lectures. The invited lectures were given by Sergiu Hart on “Uncoupled Dynamics and Nash Equilibrium”, and by Satinder Singh on “Rethinking State, Action, and Reward in Reinforcement Learning”. These papers were not included in this volume. The Mark Fulk Award is presented annually for the best paper co-authored by a student. The student selected this year was Hadi Salmasian for the paper titled “The Spectral Method for General Mixture Models” co-authored with Ravindran Kannan and Santosh Vempala. The number of papers submitted to COLT this year was exceptionally high. In addition to the classical COLT topics, we found an increase in the number of submissions related to novel classi?cation scenarios such as ranking. This - crease re?ects a healthy shift towards more structured classi?cation problems, which are becoming increasingly relevant to practitioners.

Material acts in everyday Hindu worlds. / / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910725072703321
• Autore: Flueckiger Joyce Burkhalter
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, New York State : , : State University of New York Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• ISBN: 1-4384-8013-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource : illustrations
• Collana: SUNY series in Hindu studies
• Disciplina: 294.5/37
• Soggetti: Hinduism and culture - India; Material culture - Religious aspects - Hinduism; India
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Agency of ornaments : identity, protection, and auspiciousness -- Saris and turmeric : performativity of the material guise -- Material abundance and material excess : creating and serving two goddesses -- Expanding shrines, changing architecture : from protector to protected goddesses -- Standing in cement : Ravana on the Chhattisgarhi Plains -- Afterword: Returning to material acts.
• Sommario/riassunto: "Over the last few decades, there has been a renewed intellectual energy in religious studies around material culture; however, most of the attention has been focused on the ways humans use material objects and what specific materials reflect about humans. In Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger shifts the focus from human agents to material ones, which have an effect, or cause something to happen, that may be beyond what a human creator of the material intended. Analyzing materials from three regions where she has conducted extensive fieldwork, Flueckiger begins with Indian understandings of the agency of ornaments that have the desired effects of protecting women and making them more auspicious. Subsequent chapters bring in examples of materiality that are agentive beyond human intentions, from a south Indian goddess tradition where female guising transforms the aggressive masculinity of men who wear saris, braids, and breasts, to the presence of cement images of Ravana ; in Chhattisgarh, which perform alternative theologies and ideologies to those of dominant textual traditions of the Ramayana epic, in which Ravana is destroyed by the god Rama. Deeply ethnographic and accessibly written, Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds expands our understanding of specific religious practices in India as well as the parameters of religion more broadly"--