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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      January 2011
      August 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511800474
      9780521864671
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511800474
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 300 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Computational Science, Computer Science, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Statistical Theory and Methods, Statistics and Probability
      Series:
      Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics (25)
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    Subjects:
    Computational Science, Computer Science, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Statistical Theory and Methods, Statistics and Probability
    Series:
    Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics (25)
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    Sure to be influential, this book lays the foundations for the use of algebraic geometry in statistical learning theory. Many widely used statistical models and learning machines applied to information science have a parameter space that is singular: mixture models, neural networks, HMMs, Bayesian networks, and stochastic context-free grammars are major examples. Algebraic geometry and singularity theory provide the necessary tools for studying such non-smooth models. Four main formulas are established: 1. the log likelihood function can be given a common standard form using resolution of singularities, even applied to more complex models; 2. the asymptotic behaviour of the marginal likelihood or 'the evidence' is derived based on zeta function theory; 3. new methods are derived to estimate the generalization errors in Bayes and Gibbs estimations from training errors; 4. the generalization errors of maximum likelihood and a posteriori methods are clarified by empirical process theory on algebraic varieties.

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    "Overall, the many insightful remarks and simple direct language make the book a pleasure to read."
    Shaowei Lin, Mathematical Reviews

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