A theory of learning with similarity functions

Machine Learning

Volumn 72, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 89-112

  Balcan, Maria Florina ^a   Blum, Avrim ^a   Srebro, Nathan ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b TOYOTA TECHNOLOGICAL INSTITUTE AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Kernel functions; Margins; Similarity functions

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

HIGH DIMENSIONAL SPACES; KERNEL FUNCTION; MARGINS; MEASURE OF SIMILARITIES; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; SIMILARITY MEASURE; STANDARD THEORIES; THEORY OF LEARNING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 70350723650     PISSN: 08856125     EISSN: 15730565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10994-008-5059-5     Document Type: Article

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