Advances in Learning Theory

Methods, Models and Applications

Johan A K Suykens editor G Horvath editor S Basu editor Charles A Micchelli editor Joos Vandewalle editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:IOS Press

Published:1st May '03

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Advances in Learning Theory cover

In recent years, considerable progress has been made in the understanding of problems of learning and generalization. In this context, intelligence basically means the ability to perform well on new data after learning a model on the basis of given data. Such problems arise in many different areas and are becoming increasingly important and crucial towards many applications such as in bioinformatics, multimedia, computer vision and signal processing, internet search and information retrieval, datamining and textmining, finance, fraud detection, measurement systems, process control and several others. Currently, the development of new technologies enables to generate massive amounts of data containing a wealth of information that remains to become explored. Often the dimensionality of the input spaces in these novel applications is huge. This can be seen in the analysis of micro-array data, for example, where expression levels of thousands of genes need to be analyzed given only a limited number of experiments. Without performing dimensionality reduction, the classical statistical paradigms show fundamental shortcomings at this point. Facing these new challenges, there is a need for new mathematical foundations and models in a way that the data can become processed in a reliable way. The subjects in this publication are very interdisciplinary and relate to problems studied in neural networks, machine learning, mathematics and statistics.

ISBN: 9781586033415

Dimensions: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm

Weight: 792g

440 pages