Metric learning algorithms can provide useful distance functions for a variety of domains, and recent work has shown good accuracy for problems where the learner can access all di...
Prateek Jain, Brian Kulis, Inderjit S. Dhillon, Kr...
Abstract--Kernel-based algorithms such as support vector machines have achieved considerable success in various problems in batch setting, where all of the training data is availab...
Jyrki Kivinen, Alex J. Smola, Robert C. Williamson
Tracking articulated structures like a hand or body within a reasonable time is challenging because of the high dimensionality of the state space. Recently, a new optimization met...
Matthieu Bray, Esther Koller-Meier, Luc J. Van Goo...
Neural gas (NG) constitutes a very robust clustering algorithm which can be derived as stochastic gradient descent from a cost function closely connected to the quantization error...
Barbara Hammer, Alexander Hasenfuss, Thomas Villma...
Abstract. The recently introduced family of natural evolution strategies (NES), a novel stochastic descent method employing the natural gradient, is providing a more principled alt...