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NIPS
2000
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On Reversing Jensen's Inequality
Jensen's inequality is a powerful mathematical tool and one of the workhorses in statistical learning. Its applications therein include the EM algorithm, Bayesian estimation ...
Tony Jebara, Alex Pentland
NIPS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
A Silicon Primitive for Competitive Learning
Competitive learning is a technique for training classification and clustering networks. We have designed and fabricated an 11transistor primitive, that we term an automaximizing ...
David Hsu, Miguel Figueroa, Chris Diorio
NIPS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Ensemble Learning and Linear Response Theory for ICA
We propose a general framework for performing independent component analysis (ICA) which relies on ensemble learning and linear response theory known from statistical physics. We ...
Pedro A. d. F. R. Højen-Sørensen, Ol...
NIPS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Hierarchical Memory-Based Reinforcement Learning
Natalia Hernandez-Gardiol, Sridhar Mahadevan
NIPS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Large Scale Bayes Point Machines
Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel
NIPS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
A PAC-Bayesian Margin Bound for Linear Classifiers: Why SVMs work
We investigate how the normalization of vectors influences the result of SVMs. 1 Normalization For the theoretical background, please refer to [1]. 2 Experiments We empirically co...
Ralf Herbrich, Thore Graepel
NIPS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
Support Vector Novelty Detection Applied to Jet Engine Vibration Spectra
A system has been developed to extract diagnostic information from jet engine carcass vibration data. Support Vector Machines applied to novelty detection provide a measure of how...
Paul Hayton, Bernhard Schölkopf, Lionel Taras...
NIPS
2000
14 years 1 months ago
From Margin to Sparsity
We present an improvement of Noviko 's perceptron convergence theorem. Reinterpreting this mistakebound as a margindependent sparsity guarantee allows us to give a PAC{style ...
Thore Graepel, Ralf Herbrich, Robert C. Williamson