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Record Nr.

UNISA996466620403316

Autore

Koltchinskii Vladimir

Titolo

Oracle Inequalities in Empirical Risk Minimization and Sparse Recovery Problems [[electronic resource] ] : École d’Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour XXXVIII-2008 / / by Vladimir Koltchinskii

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2011

ISBN

3-642-22147-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2011.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 254 p.)

Collana

École d'Été de Probabilités de Saint-Flour, , 0721-5363 ; ; 2033

Disciplina

519.5/36

Soggetti

Probabilities

Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes

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.

Sommario/riassunto

The purpose of these lecture notes is to provide an introduction to the general theory of empirical risk minimization with an emphasis on excess risk bounds and oracle inequalities in penalized problems. In recent years, there have been new developments in this area motivated by the study of new classes of methods in machine learning such as large margin classification methods (boosting, kernel machines). The main probabilistic tools involved in the analysis of these problems are concentration and deviation inequalities by Talagrand along with other methods of empirical processes theory (symmetrization inequalities, contraction inequality for Rademacher sums, entropy and generic chaining bounds). Sparse recovery based on l_1-type penalization and low rank matrix recovery based on the nuclear norm penalization are other active areas of research, where the main problems can be stated in the framework of penalized empirical risk minimization, and concentration inequalities and empirical processes tools have proved to be very useful.