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An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods Book

This slim book is an excellent introduction to an exciting new field--the design and implementation of important new mathematical models as the optimising strategy for learning machines. The text deals clearly with both the concepts and the practical details of these models, and consistently steers away from the more speculative side of learning machines. At the same time, the authors never fail to communicate the wonder and excitement of working with the raw stuff of knowledge and impart a spark of intelligence to mechanisms. An Introduction to Support Vector Machines is manifestly a text book, and as such leads the reader as a student through the concepts, history and implementation of kernel-based learning strategies, with plenty of pseudo-code examples, discussion and exercise questions (without answers), and the best modern bibliography of the subject available. The appendix attempts to summarise the background mathematics. It's thorough, accurate and useful as a reference: but it is not a tutorial, and may leave the novice reader with little training in set dynamics none the wiser. A well-rounded reader will sail through the intriguing first chapter, which discusses learning machines and techniques for teaching a machine (or computer program) to generalise. However chapter two, with its impenetrable conversation about "linear classification" replete with sigma notation and diagrams of "hyperplanes" may well discourage further reading. Excellent though this book is, the title is deceptive: it is indeed an "introduction"--but requires a fair background knowledge of automata and set theory.--Wilf HeyRead More

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    An Introduction to Support Vector Machines and Other Kernel-based Learning Methods A comprehensive introduction to this recent method for machine learning and data mining. Full description

  • Blackwell

    A comprehensive introduction to this recent method for machine learning and data mining. This is the first comprehensive introduction to Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a new generation learning system based on recent advances in statistical...

  • Pickabook

    Nello Christianini, John Shawe-Taylor, Nello Cristianini

  • 0521780195
  • 9780521780193
  • Nello Cristianini, John Shawe-Taylor
  • 23 March 2000
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 189
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