: Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become an increasingly popular tool for machine learning tasks involving classi cation, regression or novelty detection. They exhibit good gen...
This paper explores the effect of initial weight selection on feed-forward networks learning simple functions with the back-propagation technique. We first demonstrate, through th...
As increasing amounts of sensitive personal information is aggregated into data repositories, it has become important to develop mechanisms for processing the data without revealin...
In this work we introduce a new distance estimation technique by boosting and we apply it to the K-Nearest Neighbor Classifier (KNN). Instead of applying AdaBoost to a typical cla...
Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) has been a popular method for extracting features that preserves class separability. The projection functions of LDA are commonly obtained by max...