Learning theory : 20th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2007, San Diego, CA, USA, June 13-15, 2007 : proceedings / / Nader H. Bshouty, Claudio Gentile (editors)

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910767552603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Germany : , : Springer, , [2007]; ©2007
• ISBN: 1-280-94078-6; 9786610940783; 3-540-72927-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2007.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (644 p.)
• Collana: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence ; ; 4539
• Disciplina: 006.31
• Soggetti: Machine learning
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Invited Presentations -- Property Testing: A Learning Theory Perspective -- Spectral Algorithms for Learning and Clustering -- Unsupervised, Semisupervised and Active Learning I -- Minimax Bounds for Active Learning -- Stability of k-Means Clustering -- Margin Based Active Learning -- Unsupervised, Semisupervised and Active Learning II -- Learning Large-Alphabet and Analog Circuits with Value Injection Queries -- Teaching Dimension and the Complexity of Active Learning -- Multi-view Regression Via Canonical Correlation Analysis -- Statistical Learning Theory -- Aggregation by Exponential Weighting and Sharp Oracle Inequalities -- Occam’s Hammer -- Resampling-Based Confidence Regions and Multiple Tests for a Correlated Random Vector -- Suboptimality of Penalized Empirical Risk Minimization in Classification -- Transductive Rademacher Complexity and Its Applications -- Inductive Inference -- U-Shaped, Iterative, and Iterative-with-Counter Learning -- Mind Change Optimal Learning of Bayes Net Structure -- Learning Correction Grammars -- Mitotic Classes -- Online and Reinforcement Learning I -- Regret to the Best vs. Regret to the Average -- Strategies for Prediction Under Imperfect Monitoring -- Bounded Parameter Markov Decision Processes with Average Reward Criterion -- Online and Reinforcement Learning II -- ; On-Line Estimation with the Multivariate Gaussian Distribution -- Generalised Entropy and Asymptotic Complexities of Languages -- Q-Learning with Linear Function Approximation -- Regularized Learning, Kernel Methods, SVM -- How Good Is a Kernel When Used as a Similarity Measure? -- Gaps in Support Vector Optimization -- Learning Languages with Rational Kernels -- Generalized SMO-Style Decomposition Algorithms -- Learning Algorithms and Limitations on Learning -- Learning Nested Halfspaces and Uphill Decision Trees -- An Efficient Re-scaled Perceptron Algorithm for Conic Systems -- A Lower Bound for Agnostically Learning Disjunctions -- Sketching Information Divergences -- Competing with Stationary Prediction Strategies -- Online and Reinforcement Learning III -- Improved Rates for the Stochastic Continuum-Armed Bandit Problem -- Learning Permutations with Exponential Weights -- Online and Reinforcement Learning IV -- Multitask Learning with Expert Advice -- Online Learning with Prior Knowledge -- Dimensionality Reduction -- Nonlinear Estimators and Tail Bounds for Dimension Reduction in l 1 Using Cauchy Random Projections -- Sparse Density Estimation with ?1 Penalties -- ?1 Regularization in Infinite Dimensional Feature Spaces -- Prediction by Categorical Features: Generalization Properties and Application to Feature Ranking -- Other Approaches -- Observational Learning in Random Networks -- The Loss Rank Principle for Model Selection -- Robust Reductions from Ranking to Classification -- Open Problems -- Rademacher Margin Complexity -- Open Problems in Efficient Semi-supervised PAC Learning -- Resource-Bounded Information Gathering for Correlation Clustering -- Are There Local Maxima in the Infinite-Sample Likelihood of Gaussian Mixture Estimation? -- When Is There a Free Matrix Lunch?.