Support Vector Machines (Hardcover, 2008 ed.)

Every mathematical discipline goes through three periods of development: the naive, the formal, and the critical. David Hilbert The goal of this book is to explain the principles that made support vector machines (SVMs) a successful modeling and prediction tool for a variety of applications. We try to achieve this by presenting the basic ideas of SVMs together with the latest developments and current research questions in a uni?ed style. In a nutshell, we identify at least three reasons for the success of SVMs: their ability to learn well with only a very small number of free parameters, their robustness against several types of model violations and outliers, and last but not least their computational e?ciency compared with several other methods. Although there are several roots and precursors of SVMs, these methods gained particular momentum during the last 15 years since Vapnik (1995, 1998) published his well-known textbooks on statistical learning theory with aspecialemphasisonsupportvectormachines. Sincethen, the?eldofmachine learninghaswitnessedintenseactivityinthestudyofSVMs, whichhasspread moreandmoretootherdisciplinessuchasstatisticsandmathematics. Thusit seems fair to say that several communities are currently working on support vector machines and on related kernel-based methods. Although there are many interactions between these communities, we think that there is still roomforadditionalfruitfulinteractionandwouldbegladifthistextbookwere found helpful in stimulating further research. Many of the results presented in this book have previously been scattered in the journal literature or are still under review. As a consequence, these results have been accessible only to a relativelysmallnumberofspecialists, sometimesprobablyonlytopeoplefrom one community but not the othe

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Information Science and Statistics
Release date:	August 2008
First published:	2008
Authors:	Ingo Steinwart • Andreas Christmann
Dimensions:	242 x 162 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	601
Edition:	2008 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-387-77241-7
Categories:	Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Artificial intelligence > Machine learning
LSN:	0-387-77241-3
Barcode:	9780387772417

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