With hierarchical clustering methods, divisions or fusions, once made, are irrevocable. As a result, when two elements in a bottom-up algorithm are assigned to one cluster, they c...
A widely acknowledged drawback of many statistical modelling techniques, commonly used in machine learning, is that the resulting model is extremely difficult to interpret. A numb...
In real-world applications, “what you saw” during training is often not “what you get” during deployment: the distribution and even the type and dimensionality of features...
Abstract--Recently, sparse approximation has become a preferred method for learning large scale kernel machines. This technique attempts to represent the solution with only a subse...
We propose a kernelized maximal-figure-of-merit (MFoM) learning approach to efficiently training a nonlinear model using subspace distance minimization. In particular, a fixed,...