Learning and Generalisation: With Applications to Neural Networks (Communications and Control Engineering) - Hardcover

Vidyasagar, Mathukumalli

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1852333731 ISBN 13: 9781852333737

Verlag: Springer, 2002

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Learning and Generalization provides a formal mathematical theory addressing intuitive questions of the type:

• How does a machine learn a concept on the basis of examples?

• How can a neural network, after training, correctly predict the outcome of a previously unseen input?

• How much training is required to achieve a given level of accuracy in the prediction?

• How can one identify the dynamical behaviour of a nonlinear control system by observing its input-output behaviour over a finite time?

The second edition covers new areas including:

• support vector machines;

• fat-shattering dimensions and applications to neural network learning;

• learning with dependent samples generated by a beta-mixing process;

• connections between system identification and learning theory;

• probabilistic solution of 'intractable problems' in robust control and matrix theory using randomized algorithms.

It also contains solutions to some of the open problems posed in the first edition, while adding new open problems.

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Mathukumalli Vidyasagar was born in Guntur, India on September 29, 1947. He received the B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Wisconsin in Madison, in 1965, 1967 and 1969 respectively. Between 1969 and 1989, he was a Professor of Electrical Engineering at various universities in the USA and Canada. His last overseas job was with the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada, where he served between 1980 and 1989. In 1989 he returned to India as the Director of the newly created Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR) in Bangalore, under the Ministry of Defence, Government of India. Between 1989 and 2000, he built up CAIR into a leading research laboratory with about 40 scientists and a total of about 85 persons, working in areas such as flight control, robotics, neural networks, and image processing. In 2000 he moved to the Indian private sector as an Executive Vice President of India's largest software company, Tata Consultancy Services. In the city of Hyderabad, he created the Advanced Technology Center, an industrial R&D laboratory of around 80 engineers, working in areas such as computational biology, quantitative finance, e-security, identity management, and open source software to support Indian languages. In 2009 he retired from TCS at the age of 62, and joined the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas, as a Cecil and Ida Green Chair in Systems Biology Science. In March 2010 he was named as the Founding Head of the newly created Bioengineering Department. His current research interests are in the application of stochastic processes and stochastic modeling to problems in computational biology, control systems and quantitative finance.

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Learning and Generalization provides a formal mathematical theory for addressing intuitive questions such as:

• How does a machine learn a new concept on the basis of examples?

• How can a neural network, after sufficient training, correctly predict the outcome of a previously unseen input?

• How much training is required to achieve a specified level of accuracy in the prediction?

• How can one identify the dynamical behaviour of a nonlinear control system by observing its input-output behaviour over a finite interval of time?

In its successful first edition, A Theory of Learning and Generalization was the first book to treat the problem of machine learning in conjunction with the theory of empirical processes, the latter being a well-established branch of probability theory. The treatment of both topics side-by-side leads to new insights, as well as to new results in both topics.

This second edition extends and improves upon this material, covering new areas including:

• Support vector machines.

• Fat-shattering dimensions and applications to neural network learning.

• Learning with dependent samples generated by a beta-mixing process.

• Connections between system identification and learning theory.

• Probabilistic solution of 'intractable problems' in robust control and matrix theory using randomized algorithm.

Reflecting advancements in the field, solutions to some of the open problems posed in the first edition are presented, while new open problems have been added.

Learning and Generalization (second edition) is essential reading for control and system theorists, neural network researchers, theoretical computer scientists and probabilist.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Springer
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1852333731
• ISBN 13: 9781852333737
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 509
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