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Chapter14KernelCanonicalCorrelationAnalysisImagineyouaregiven2copiesofacorpusofdocuments,onewritteninEnglish,theotherwritteninGerman.Youmayconsideranarbitraryrepresentationofthedocuments,butfordefinitenesswewillusethe“vectorspace”representationwherethereisanentryforeverypossiblewordinthevocabularyandadocumentisrepresentedbycountvaluesforeveryword,i.e.iftheword“theappeared12timesandthefirstwordinthevocabularywehaveX1(doc)=12etc.Let’ssayweareinterestedinextractinglowdimensionalrepresentationsforeachdocument.Ifwehadonlyonelanguage,wecouldconsiderrunningPCAtoextractdirectionsinwordspacethatcarrymostofthevariance.Thishastheabilitytoinfersemanticrelationsbetweenthewordssuchassynonymy,becauseifwordstendtoco-occuroftenindocuments,i.e.theyarehighlycorrelated,theytendtobecombinedintoasingledimensioninthenewspace.Thesespacescanoftenbeinterpretedastopicspaces.Ifwehavetwotranslations,wecantrytofindprojectionsofeachrepresenta-tionseparatelysuchthattheprojectionsaremaximallycorrelated.Hopefully,thisimpliesthattheyrepresentthesametopicintwodifferentlanguages.Inthiswaywecanextractlanguageindependenttopics.LetxbeadocumentinEnglishandyadocumentinGerman.Considertheprojections:u=aTxandv=bTy.Alsoassumethatthedatahavezeromean.Wenowconsiderthefollowingobjective,ρ=E[uv]pE[u2]E[v2](14.1)69 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iiCONTENTS7.2ADifferentCostfunction:LogisticRegression..........377.3TheIdeaInaNutshell........................388SupportVectorMachines398.1TheNon-Separablecase......................439SupportVectorRegression4710KernelridgeRegression5110.1KernelRidgeRegression......................5210.2Analternativederivation......................5311KernelK-meansandSpectralClustering5512KernelPrincipalComponentsAnalysis5912.1CenteringDatainFeatureSpace..................6113FisherLinearDiscriminantAnalysis6313.1KernelFisherLDA.........................6613.2AConstrainedConvexProgrammingFormulationofFDA....6814KernelCanonicalCorrelationAnalysis6914.1KernelCCA.............................71AEssentialsofConvexOptimization73A.1Lagrangiansandallthat.......................73BKernelDesign77B.1PolynomialsKernels........................77B.2AllSubsetsKernel.........................78B.3TheGaussianKernel........................79 #################### File: 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6.5.REMARKS316.5RemarksOneofthemainlimitationsoftheNBclassifieristhatitassumesindependencebe-tweenattributes(ThisispresumablythereasonwhywecallitthenaiveBayesianclassifier).Thisisreflectedinthefactthateachclassifierhasanindependentvoteinthefinalscore.However,imaginethatImeasurethewords,“home”and“mortgage”.Observing“mortgage”certainlyraisestheprobabilityofobserving“home”.Wesaythattheyarepositivelycorrelated.Itwouldthereforebemorefairifweattributedasmallerweightto“home”ifwealreadyobservedmortgagebecausetheyconveythesamething:thisemailisaboutmortgagesforyourhome.Onewaytoobtainamorefairvotingschemeistomodelthesedependenciesex-plicitly.However,thiscomesatacomputationalcost(alongertimebeforeyoureceiveyouremailinyourinbox)whichmaynotalwaysbeworththeadditionalaccuracy.Oneshouldalsonotethatmoreparametersdonotnecessarilyimproveaccuracybecausetoomanyparametersmayleadtooverfitting.6.6TheIdeaInaNutshellConsiderFigure??.Wecanclassifydatabybuildingamodelofhowthedatawasgenerated.ForNBwefirstdecidewhetherwewillgenerateadata-itemfromclassY=0orclassY=1.GiventhatdecisionwegeneratethevaluesforDattributesindependently.Eachclasshasadifferentmodelforgeneratingattributes.Clas-sificationisachievedbycomputingwhichmodelwasmorelikelytogeneratethenewdata-point,biasingtheoutcometowardstheclassthatisexpectedtogeneratemoredata. 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ContentsPrefaceiiiLearningandIntuitionvii1DataandInformation11.1DataRepresentation.........................21.2PreprocessingtheData.......................42DataVisualization73Learning113.1InaNutshell.............................154TypesofMachineLearning174.1InaNutshell.............................205NearestNeighborsClassification215.1TheIdeaInaNutshell........................236TheNaiveBayesianClassifier256.1TheNaiveBayesModel......................256.2LearningaNaiveBayesClassifier.................276.3Class-PredictionforNewInstances.................286.4Regularization............................306.5Remarks...............................316.6TheIdeaInaNutshell........................317ThePerceptron337.1ThePerceptronModel.......................34i #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 55 Context: 8.1.THENON-SEPARABLECASE43thataresituatedinthesupporthyperplaneandtheydeterminethesolution.Typi-cally,thereareonlyfewofthem,whichpeoplecalla“sparse”solution(mostα’svanish).Whatwearereallyinterestedinisthefunctionf(·)whichcanbeusedtoclassifyfuturetestcases,f(x)=w∗Tx−b∗=XiαiyixTix−b∗(8.17)AsanapplicationoftheKKTconditionswederiveasolutionforb∗byusingthecomplementaryslacknesscondition,b∗= XjαjyjxTjxi−yi!iasupportvector(8.18)whereweusedy2i=1.So,usinganysupportvectoronecandetermineb,butfornumericalstabilityitisbettertoaverageoverallofthem(althoughtheyshouldobviouslybeconsistent).Themostimportantconclusionisagainthatthisfunctionf(·)canthusbeexpressedsolelyintermsofinnerproductsxTixiwhichwecanreplacewithker-nelmatricesk(xi,xj)tomovetohighdimensionalnon-linearspaces.Moreover,sinceαistypicallyverysparse,wedon’tneedtoevaluatemanykernelentriesinordertopredicttheclassofthenewinputx.8.1TheNon-SeparablecaseObviously,notalldatasetsarelinearlyseparable,andsoweneedtochangetheformalismtoaccountforthat.Clearly,theproblemliesintheconstraints,whichcannotalwaysbesatisfied.So,let’srelaxthoseconstraintsbyintroducing“slackvariables”,ξi,wTxi−b≤−1+ξi∀yi=−1(8.19)wTxi−b≥+1−ξi∀yi=+1(8.20)ξi≥0∀i(8.21)Thevariables,ξiallowforviolationsoftheconstraint.Weshouldpenalizetheobjectivefunctionfortheseviolations,otherwisetheaboveconstraintsbecomevoid(simplyalwayspickξiverylarge).PenaltyfunctionsoftheformC(Piξi)k 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4CHAPTER1.DATAANDINFORMATION1.2PreprocessingtheDataAsmentionedintheprevioussection,algorithmsarebasedonassumptionsandcanbecomemoreeffectiveifwetransformthedatafirst.Considerthefollowingexample,depictedinfigure??a.Thealgorithmweconsistsofestimatingtheareathatthedataoccupy.Itgrowsacirclestartingattheoriginandatthepointitcontainsallthedatawerecordtheareaofcircle.Inthefigurewhythiswillbeabadestimate:thedata-cloudisnotcentered.Ifwewouldhavefirstcentereditwewouldhaveobtainedreasonableestimate.Althoughthisexampleissomewhatsimple-minded,therearemany,muchmoreinterestingalgorithmsthatassumecentereddata.Tocenterdatawewillintroducethesamplemeanofthedata,givenby,E[X]i=1NNXn=1Xin(1.1)Hence,foreveryattributeiseparately,wesimpleaddalltheattributevalueacrossdata-casesanddividebythetotalnumberofdata-cases.Totransformthedatasothattheirsamplemeaniszero,weset,X′in=Xin−E[X]i∀n(1.2)ItisnoweasytocheckthatthesamplemeanofX′indeedvanishes.Anillustra-tionoftheglobalshiftisgiveninfigure??b.Wealsoseeinthisfigurethatthealgorithmdescribedabovenowworksmuchbetter!Inasimilarspiritascentering,wemayalsowishtoscalethedataalongthecoordinateaxisinordermakeitmore“spherical”.Considerfigure??a,b.Inthiscasethedatawasfirstcentered,buttheelongatedshapestillpreventedusfromusingthesimplisticalgorithmtoestimatetheareacoveredbythedata.Thesolutionistoscaletheaxessothatthespreadisthesameineverydimension.Todefinethisoperationwefirstintroducethenotionofsamplevariance,V[X]i=1NNXn=1X2in(1.3)wherewehaveassumedthatthedatawasfirstcentered.Notethatthisissimilartothesamplemean,butnowwehaveusedthesquare.Itisimportantthatwehaveremovedthesignofthedata-cases(bytakingthesquare)becauseotherwisepositiveandnegativesignsmightcanceleachotherout.Byfirsttakingthesquare,alldata-casesfirstgetmappedtopositivehalfoftheaxes(foreachdimensionor 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A.1.LAGRANGIANSANDALLTHAT75Hence,the“sup”and“inf”canbeinterchangedifstrongdualityholds,hencetheoptimalsolutionisasaddle-point.Itisimportanttorealizethattheorderofmaximizationandminimizationmattersforarbitraryfunctions(butnotforconvexfunctions).Trytoimaginea“V”shapesvalleywhichrunsdiagonallyacrossthecoordinatesystem.Ifwefirstmaximizeoveronedirection,keepingtheotherdirectionfixed,andthenminimizetheresultweendupwiththelowestpointontherim.Ifwereversetheorderweendupwiththehighestpointinthevalley.Thereareanumberofimportantnecessaryconditionsthatholdforproblemswithzerodualitygap.TheseKarush-Kuhn-Tuckerconditionsturnouttobesuffi-cientforconvexoptimizationproblems.Theyaregivenby,∇f0(x∗)+Xiλ∗i∇fi(x∗)+Xjν∗j∇hj(x∗)=0(A.8)fi(x∗)≤0(A.9)hj(x∗)=0(A.10)λ∗i≥0(A.11)λ∗ifi(x∗)=0(A.12)Thefirstequationiseasilyderivedbecausewealreadysawthatp∗=infxLP(x,λ∗,ν∗)andhenceallthederivativesmustvanish.Thisconditionhasaniceinterpretationasa“balancingofforces”.Imagineaballrollingdownasurfacedefinedbyf0(x)(i.e.youaredoinggradientdescenttofindtheminimum).Theballgetsblockedbyawall,whichistheconstraint.Ifthesurfaceandconstraintisconvextheniftheballdoesn’tmovewehavereachedtheoptimalsolution.Atthatpoint,theforcesontheballmustbalance.Thefirsttermrepresenttheforceoftheballagainstthewallduetogravity(theballisstillonaslope).Thesecondtermrepresentsthere-actionforceofthewallintheoppositedirection.Theλrepresentsthemagnitudeofthereactionforce,whichneedstobehigherifthesurfaceslopesmore.Wesaythatthisconstraintis“active”.Otherconstraintswhichdonotexertaforceare“inactive”andhaveλ=0.ThelatterstatementcanbereadoffromthelastKKTconditionwhichwecall“complementaryslackness”.Itsaysthateitherfi(x)=0(theconstraintissaturatedandhenceactive)inwhichcaseλisfreetotakeonanon-zerovalue.However,iftheconstraintisinactive:fi(x)≤0,thenλmustvanish.Aswewillseesoon,theactiveconstraintswillcorrespondtothesupportvectorsinSVMs! 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42CHAPTER8.SUPPORTVECTORMACHINESThetheoryofdualityguaranteesthatforconvexproblems,thedualprob-lemwillbeconcave,andmoreover,thattheuniquesolutionoftheprimalprob-lemcorrespondstottheuniquesolutionofthedualproblem.Infact,wehave:LP(w∗)=LD(α∗),i.e.the“duality-gap”iszero.Nextweturntotheconditionsthatmustnecessarilyholdatthesaddlepointandthusthesolutionoftheproblem.ThesearecalledtheKKTconditions(whichstandsforKarush-Kuhn-Tucker).Theseconditionsarenecessaryingeneral,andsufficientforconvexoptimizationproblems.Theycanbederivedfromthepri-malproblembysettingthederivativeswrttowtozero.Also,theconstraintsthemselvesarepartoftheseconditionsandweneedthatforinequalityconstraintstheLagrangemultipliersarenon-negative.Finally,animportantconstraintcalled“complementaryslackness”needstobesatisfied,∂wLP=0→w−Xiαiyixi=0(8.12)∂bLP=0→Xiαiyi=0(8.13)constraint-1yi(wTxi−b)−1≥0(8.14)multiplierconditionαi≥0(8.15)complementaryslacknessαi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1(cid:3)=0(8.16)Itisthelastequationwhichmaybesomewhatsurprising.Itstatesthateithertheinequalityconstraintissatisfied,butnotsaturated:yi(wTxi−b)−1>0inwhichcaseαiforthatdata-casemustbezero,ortheinequalityconstraintissaturatedyi(wTxi−b)−1=0,inwhichcaseαicanbeanyvalueαi≥0.In-equalityconstraintswhicharesaturatedaresaidtobe“active”,whileunsaturatedconstraintsareinactive.Onecouldimaginetheprocessofsearchingforasolutionasaballwhichrunsdowntheprimaryobjectivefunctionusinggradientdescent.Atsomepoint,itwillhitawallwhichistheconstraintandalthoughthederivativeisstillpointingpartiallytowardsthewall,theconstraintsprohibitstheballtogoon.Thisisanactiveconstraintbecausetheballisgluedtothatwall.Whenafinalsolutionisreached,wecouldremovesomeconstraints,withoutchangingthesolution,theseareinactiveconstraints.Onecouldthinkoftheterm∂wLPastheforceactingontheball.Weseefromthefirstequationabovethatonlytheforceswithαi6=0exsertaforceontheballthatbalanceswiththeforcefromthecurvedquadraticsurfacew.Thetrainingcaseswithαi>0,representingactiveconstraintsontheposi-tionofthesupp 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28CHAPTER6.THENAIVEBAYESIANCLASSIFIERForhamemails,wecomputeexactlythesamequantity,Pham(Xi=j)=#hamemailsforwhichthewordiwasfoundjtimestotal#ofhamemails(6.5)=PnI[Xin=j∧Yn=0]PnI[Yn=0](6.6)Boththesequantitiesshouldbecomputedforallwordsorphrases(ormoregen-erallyattributes).Wehavenowfinishedthephasewhereweestimatethemodelfromthedata.Wewilloftenrefertothisphaseas“learning”ortrainingamodel.Themodelhelpsusunderstandhowdatawasgeneratedinsomeapproximatesetting.Thenextphaseisthatofpredictionorclassificationofnewemail.6.3Class-PredictionforNewInstancesNewemaildoesnotcomewithalabelhamorspam(ifitwouldwecouldthrowspaminthespam-boxrightaway).Whatwedoseearetheattributes{Xi}.Ourtaskistoguessthelabelbasedonthemodelandthemeasuredattributes.Theapproachwetakeissimple:calculatewhethertheemailhasahigherprobabilityofbeinggeneratedfromthespamorthehammodel.Forexample,becausetheword“viagra”hasatinyprobabilityofbeinggeneratedunderthehammodelitwillendupwithahigherprobabilityunderthespammodel.Butclearly,allwordshaveasayinthisprocess.It’slikealargecommitteeofexperts,oneforeachword.eachmembercastsavoteandcansaythingslike:“Iam99%certainitsspam”,or“It’salmostdefinitelynotspam(0.1%spam)”.Eachoftheseopinionswillbemultipliedtogethertogenerateafinalscore.Wethenfigureoutwhetherhamorspamhasthehighestscore.Thereisonelittlepracticalcaveatwiththisapproach,namelythattheproductofalargenumberofprobabilities,eachofwhichisnecessarilysmallerthanone,veryquicklygetssosmallthatyourcomputercan’thandleit.Thereisaneasyfixthough.Insteadofmultiplyingprobabilitiesasscores,weusethelogarithmsofthoseprobabilitiesandaddthelogarithms.Thisisnumericallystableandleadstothesameconclusionbecauseifa>bthenwealsohavethatlog(a)>log(b)andviceversa.Inequationswecomputethescoreasfollows:Sspam=XilogPspam(Xi=vi)+logP(spam)(6.7) 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Chapter9SupportVectorRegressionInkernelridgeregressionwehaveseenthefinalsolutionwasnotsparseinthevariablesα.Wewillnowformulatearegressionmethodthatissparse,i.e.ithastheconceptofsupportvectorsthatdeterminethesolution.Thethingtonoticeisthatthesparsenessarosefromcomplementaryslacknessconditionswhichinturncamefromthefactthatwehadinequalityconstraints.IntheSVMthepenaltythatwaspaidforbeingonthewrongsideofthesupportplanewasgivenbyCPiξkiforpositiveintegersk,whereξiistheorthogonaldistanceawayfromthesupportplane.Notethattheterm||w||2wastheretopenalizelargewandhencetoregularizethesolution.Importantly,therewasnopenaltyifadata-casewasontherightsideoftheplane.Becauseallthesedata-pointsdonothaveanyeffectonthefinalsolutiontheαwassparse.Herewedothesamething:weintroduceapenaltyforbeingtofarawayfrompredictedlinewΦi+b,butonceyouarecloseenough,i.e.insome“epsilon-tube”aroundthisline,thereisnopenalty.Wethusexpectthatallthedata-caseswhichlieinsidethedata-tubewillhavenoimpactonthefinalsolutionandhencehavecorrespondingαi=0.Usingtheanalogyofsprings:inthecaseofridge-regressionthespringswereattachedbetweenthedata-casesandthedecisionsurface,henceeveryitemhadanimpactonthepositionofthisboundarythroughtheforceitexerted(recallthatthesurfacewasfrom“rubber”andpulledbackbecauseitwasparameterizedusingafinitenumberofdegreesoffreedomorbecauseitwasregularized).ForSVRthereareonlyspringsattachedbetweendata-casesoutsidethetubeandtheseattachtothetube,notthedecisionboundary.Hence,data-itemsinsidethetubehavenoimpactonthefinalsolution(orrather,changingtheirpositionslightlydoesn’tperturbthesolution).Weintroducedifferentconstraintsforviolatingthetubeconstraintfromabove47 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1.2.PREPROCESSINGTHEDATA5attributeseparately)andthenaddedanddividedbyN.YouhaveperhapsnoticedthatvariancedoesnothavethesameunitsasXitself.IfXismeasuredingrams,thenvarianceismeasuredingramssquared.Sotoscalethedatatohavethesamescaleineverydimensionwedividebythesquare-rootofthevariance,whichisusuallycalledthesamplestandarddeviation.,X′′in=X′inpV[X′]i∀n(1.4)Noteagainthatspheringrequirescenteringimplyingthatwealwayshavetoper-formtheseoperationsinthisorder,firstcenter,thensphere.Figure??a,b,cillus-tratethisprocess.Youmaynowbeasking,“wellwhatifthedatawhereelongatedinadiagonaldirection?”.Indeed,wecanalsodealwithsuchacasebyfirstcentering,thenrotatingsuchthattheelongateddirectionpointsinthedirectionofoneoftheaxes,andthenscaling.Thisrequiresquiteabitmoremath,andwillpostponethisissueuntilchapter??on“principalcomponentsanalysis”.However,thequestionisinfactaverydeepone,becauseonecouldarguethatonecouldkeepchangingthedatausingmoreandmoresophisticatedtransformationsuntilallthestructurewasremovedfromthedataandtherewouldbenothinglefttoanalyze!Itisindeedtruethatthepre-processingstepscanbeviewedaspartofthemodelingprocessinthatitidentifiesstructure(andthenremovesit).Byrememberingthesequenceoftransformationsyouperformedyouhaveimplicitlybuildamodel.Reversely,manyalgorithmcanbeeasilyadaptedtomodelthemeanandscaleofthedata.Now,thepreprocessingisnolongernecessaryandbecomesintegratedintothemodel.Justaspreprocessingcanbeviewedasbuildingamodel,wecanuseamodeltotransformstructureddatainto(more)unstructureddata.Thedetailsofthisprocesswillbeleftforlaterchaptersbutagoodexampleisprovidedbycompres-sionalgorithms.Compressionalgorithmsarebasedonmodelsfortheredundancyindata(e.g.text,images).Thecompressionconsistsinremovingthisredun-dancyandtransformingtheoriginaldataintoalessstructuredorlessredundant(andhencemoresuccinct)code.Modelsandstructurereducingdatatransforma-tionsareinsenseeachothersreverse:weoftenassociatewithamodelanunder-standingofhowthedatawasgenerated,startingfromrandomnoise.Reversely,pre-proc 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Chapter3LearningThischapteriswithoutquestionthemostimportantoneofthebook.Itconcernsthecore,almostphilosophicalquestionofwhatlearningreallyis(andwhatitisnot).Ifyouwanttorememberonethingfromthisbookyouwillfindithereinthischapter.Ok,let’sstartwithanexample.Alicehasaratherstrangeailment.Sheisnotabletorecognizeobjectsbytheirvisualappearance.Atherhomesheisdoingjustfine:hermotherexplainedAliceforeveryobjectinherhousewhatisisandhowyouuseit.Whensheishome,sherecognizestheseobjects(iftheyhavenotbeenmovedtoomuch),butwhensheentersanewenvironmentsheislost.Forexample,ifsheentersanewmeetingroomsheneedsalongtimetoinferwhatthechairsandthetableareintheroom.Shehasbeendiagnosedwithaseverecaseof”overfitting”.WhatisthematterwithAlice?Nothingiswrongwithhermemorybecausesherememberstheobjectsonceshehasseemthem.Infact,shehasafantasticmemory.Sherememberseverydetailoftheobjectsshehasseen.Andeverytimesheseesanewobjectsshereasonsthattheobjectinfrontofherissurelynotachairbecauseitdoesn’thaveallthefeaturesshehasseeninear-lierchairs.TheproblemisthatAlicecannotgeneralizetheinformationshehasobservedfromoneinstanceofavisualobjectcategorytoother,yetunobservedmembersofthesamecategory.ThefactthatAlice’sdiseaseissorareisunder-standabletheremusthavebeenastrongselectionpressureagainstthisdisease.Imagineourancestorswalkingthroughthesavannaonemillionyearsago.Alionappearsonthescene.AncestralAlicehasseenlionsbefore,butnotthisparticularoneanditdoesnotinduceafearresponse.Ofcourse,shehasnotimetoinferthepossibilitythatthisanimalmaybedangerouslogically.Alice’scontemporariesnoticedthattheanimalwasyellow-brown,hadmanesetc.andimmediatelyun-11 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Chapter6TheNaiveBayesianClassifierInthischapterwewilldiscussthe“NaiveBayes”(NB)classifier.Ithasproventobeveryusefulinmanyapplicationbothinscienceaswellasinindustry.IntheintroductionIpromisedIwouldtrytoavoidtheuseofprobabilitiesasmuchaspossible.However,inchapterI’llmakeanexception,becausetheNBclassifierismostnaturallyexplainedwiththeuseofprobabilities.Fortunately,wewillonlyneedthemostbasicconcepts.6.1TheNaiveBayesModelNBismostlyusedwhendealingwithdiscrete-valuedattributes.Wewillexplainthealgorithminthiscontextbutnotethatextensionstocontinuous-valuedat-tributesarepossible.Wewillrestrictattentiontoclassificationproblemsbetweentwoclassesandrefertosection??forapproachestoextendthistwomorethantwoclasses.InourusualnotationweconsiderDdiscretevaluedattributesXi∈[0,..,Vi],i=1..D.NotethateachattributecanhaveadifferentnumberofvaluesVi.Iftheorig-inaldatawassuppliedinadifferentformat,e.g.X1=[Yes,No],thenwesimplyreassignthesevaluestofittheaboveformat,Yes=1,No=0(orreversed).Inadditionwearealsoprovidedwithasupervisedsignal,inthiscasethelabelsareY=0andY=1indicatingthatthatdata-itemfellinclass0orclass1.Again,whichclassisassignedto0or1isarbitraryandhasnoimpactontheperformanceofthealgorithm.Beforewemoveon,let’sconsiderarealworldexample:spam-filtering.Everydayyourmailboxget’sbombardedwithhundredsofspamemails.Togivean25 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44CHAPTER8.SUPPORTVECTORMACHINESwillleadtoconvexoptimizationproblemsforpositiveintegersk.Fork=1,2itisstillaquadraticprogram(QP).Inthefollowingwewillchoosek=1.Ccontrolsthetradeoffbetweenthepenaltyandmargin.Tobeonthewrongsideoftheseparatinghyperplane,adata-casewouldneedξi>1.Hence,thesumPiξicouldbeinterpretedasmeasureofhow“bad”theviolationsareandisanupperboundonthenumberofviolations.Thenewprimalproblemthusbecomes,minimizew,b,ξLP=12||w||2+CXiξisubjecttoyi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi≥0∀i(8.22)ξi≥0∀i(8.23)leadingtotheLagrangian,L(w,b,ξ,α,µ)=12||w||2+CXiξi−NXi=1αi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi(cid:3)−NXi=1µiξi(8.24)fromwhichwederivetheKKTconditions,1.∂wLP=0→w−Xiαiyixi=0(8.25)2.∂bLP=0→Xiαiyi=0(8.26)3.∂ξLP=0→C−αi−µi=0(8.27)4.constraint-1yi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi≥0(8.28)5.constraint-2ξi≥0(8.29)6.multipliercondition-1αi≥0(8.30)7.multipliercondition-2µi≥0(8.31)8.complementaryslackness-1αi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi(cid:3)=0(8.32)9.complementaryslackness-1µiξi=0(8.33)(8.34)Fromherewecandeducethefollowingfacts.Ifweassumethatξi>0,thenµi=0(9),henceαi=C(1)andthusξi=1−yi(xTiw−b)(8).Also,whenξi=0wehaveµi>0(9)andhenceαi0(8).Otherwise,ifyi(wTxi−b)−1>0 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41Thus,wemaximizethemargin,subjecttotheconstraintsthatalltrainingcasesfalloneithersideofthesupporthyper-planes.Thedata-casesthatlieonthehyperplanearecalledsupportvectors,sincetheysupportthehyper-planesandhencedeterminethesolutiontotheproblem.Theprimalproblemcanbesolvedbyaquadraticprogram.However,itisnotreadytobekernelised,becauseitsdependenceisnotonlyoninnerproductsbetweendata-vectors.Hence,wetransformtothedualformulationbyfirstwritingtheproblemusingaLagrangian,L(w,b,α)=12||w||2−NXi=1αi(cid:2)yi(wTxi−b)−1(cid:3)(8.7)ThesolutionthatminimizestheprimalproblemsubjecttotheconstraintsisgivenbyminwmaxαL(w,α),i.e.asaddlepointproblem.Whentheoriginalobjective-functionisconvex,(andonlythen),wecaninterchangetheminimizationandmaximization.Doingthat,wefindthatwecanfindtheconditiononwthatmustholdatthesaddlepointwearesolvingfor.Thisisdonebytakingderivativeswrtwandbandsolving,w−Xiαiyixi=0⇒w∗=Xiαiyixi(8.8)Xiαiyi=0(8.9)InsertingthisbackintotheLagrangianweobtainwhatisknownasthedualprob-lem,maximizeLD=NXi=1αi−12XijαiαjyiyjxTixjsubjecttoXiαiyi=0(8.10)αi≥0∀i(8.11)Thedualformulationoftheproblemisalsoaquadraticprogram,butnotethatthenumberofvariables,αiinthisproblemisequaltothenumberofdata-cases,N.Thecrucialpointishowever,thatthisproblemonlydependsonxithroughtheinnerproductxTixj.ThisisreadilykernelisedthroughthesubstitutionxTixj→k(xi,xj).Thisisarecurrenttheme:thedualproblemlendsitselftokernelisation,whiletheprimalproblemdidnot. 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8.1.THENON-SEPARABLECASE45thenαi=0.Insummary,asbeforeforpointsnotonthesupportplaneandonthecorrectsidewehaveξi=αi=0(allconstraintsinactive).Onthesupportplane,westillhaveξi=0,butnowαi>0.Finally,fordata-casesonthewrongsideofthesupporthyperplanetheαimax-outtoαi=Candtheξibalancetheviolationoftheconstraintsuchthatyi(wTxi−b)−1+ξi=0.Geometrically,wecancalculatethegapbetweensupporthyperplaneandtheviolatingdata-casetobeξi/||w||.Thiscanbeseenbecausetheplanedefinedbyyi(wTx−b)−1+ξi=0isparalleltothesupportplaneatadistance|1+yib−ξi|/||w||fromtheorigin.Sincethesupportplaneisatadistance|1+yib|/||w||theresultfollows.Finally,weneedtoconverttothedualproblemtosolveitefficientlyandtokerneliseit.Again,weusetheKKTequationstogetridofw,bandξ,maximizeLD=NXi=1αi−12XijαiαjyiyjxTixjsubjecttoXiαiyi=0(8.35)0≤αi≤C∀i(8.36)Surprisingly,thisisalmostthesameQPisbefore,butwithanextraconstraintonthemultipliersαiwhichnowliveinabox.Thisconstraintisderivedfromthefactthatαi=C−µiandµi≥0.WealsonotethatitonlydependsoninnerproductsxTixjwhicharereadytobekernelised. 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Chapter12KernelPrincipalComponentsAnalysisLet’sfistseewhatPCAiswhenwedonotworryaboutkernelsandfeaturespaces.Wewillalwaysassumethatwehavecentereddata,i.e.Pixi=0.Thiscanalwaysbeachievedbyasimpletranslationoftheaxis.Ouraimistofindmeaningfulprojectionsofthedata.However,wearefacinganunsupervisedproblemwherewedon’thaveaccesstoanylabels.Ifwehad,weshouldbedoingLinearDiscriminantAnalysis.Duetothislackoflabels,ouraimwillbetofindthesubspaceoflargestvariance,wherewechoosethenumberofretaineddimensionsbeforehand.Thisisclearlyastrongassumption,becauseitmayhappenthatthereisinterestingsignalinthedirectionsofsmallvariance,inwhichcasePCAinnotasuitabletechnique(andweshouldperhapsuseatechniquecalledindependentcomponentanalysis).However,usuallyitistruethatthedirectionsofsmallestvariancerepresentuninterestingnoise.Tomakeprogress,westartbywritingdownthesample-covariancematrixC,C=1NXixixTi(12.1)Theeigenvaluesofthismatrixrepresentthevarianceintheeigen-directionsofdata-space.Theeigen-vectorcorrespondingtothelargesteigenvalueisthedirec-tioninwhichthedataismoststretchedout.Theseconddirectionisorthogonaltoitandpicksthedirectionoflargestvarianceinthatorthogonalsubspaceetc.Thus,toreducethedimensionalityofthedata,weprojectthedataontothere-59 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2CHAPTER1.DATAANDINFORMATIONInterpretation:Hereweseektoanswerquestionsaboutthedata.Forinstance,whatpropertyofthisdrugwasresponsibleforitshighsuccess-rate?Doesasecu-rityofficerattheairportapplyracialprofilingindecidingwho’sluggagetocheck?Howmanynaturalgroupsarethereinthedata?Compression:Hereweareinterestedincompressingtheoriginaldata,a.k.a.thenumberofbitsneededtorepresentit.Forinstance,filesinyourcomputercanbe“zipped”toamuchsmallersizebyremovingmuchoftheredundancyinthosefiles.Also,JPEGandGIF(amongothers)arecompressedrepresentationsoftheoriginalpixel-map.Alloftheaboveobjectivesdependonthefactthatthereisstructureinthedata.Ifdataiscompletelyrandomthereisnothingtopredict,nothingtointerpretandnothingtocompress.Hence,alltasksaresomehowrelatedtodiscoveringorleveragingthisstructure.Onecouldsaythatdataishighlyredundantandthatthisredundancyisexactlywhatmakesitinteresting.Taketheexampleofnatu-ralimages.Ifyouarerequiredtopredictthecolorofthepixelsneighboringtosomerandompixelinanimage,youwouldbeabletodoaprettygoodjob(forinstance20%maybeblueskyandpredictingtheneighborsofablueskypixeliseasy).Also,ifwewouldgenerateimagesatrandomtheywouldnotlooklikenaturalscenesatall.Forone,itwouldn’tcontainobjects.Onlyatinyfractionofallpossibleimageslooks“natural”andsothespaceofnaturalimagesishighlystructured.Thus,alloftheseconceptsareintimatelyrelated:structure,redundancy,pre-dictability,regularity,interpretability,compressibility.Theyrefertothe“food”formachinelearning,withoutstructurethereisnothingtolearn.Thesamethingistrueforhumanlearning.Fromthedaywearebornwestartnoticingthatthereisstructureinthisworld.Oursurvivaldependsondiscoveringandrecordingthisstructure.IfIwalkintothisbrowncylinderwithagreencanopyIsuddenlystop,itwon’tgiveway.Infact,itdamagesmybody.Perhapsthisholdsforalltheseobjects.WhenIcrymymothersuddenlyappears.Ourgameistopredictthefutureaccurately,andwepredictitbylearningitsstructure.1.1DataRepresentationWhatdoes“data”looklike?Inotherwords,whatdowedownloadintoourcom-puter?Datacomesinmany 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52CHAPTER10.KERNELRIDGEREGRESSION10.1KernelRidgeRegressionWenowreplacealldata-caseswiththeirfeaturevector:xi→Φi=Φ(xi).Inthiscasethenumberofdimensionscanbemuchhigher,oreveninfinitelyhigher,thanthenumberofdata-cases.Thereisaneattrickthatallowsustoperformtheinverseaboveinsmallestspaceofthetwopossibilities,eitherthedimensionofthefeaturespaceorthenumberofdata-cases.Thetrickisgivenbythefollowingidentity,(P−1+BTR−1B)−1BTR−1=PBT(BPBT+R)−1(10.4)NownotethatifBisnotsquare,theinverseisperformedinspacesofdifferentdimensionality.ToapplythistoourcasewedefineΦ=Φaiandy=yi.Thesolutionisthengivenby,w=(λId+ΦΦT)−1Φy=Φ(ΦTΦ+λIn)−1y(10.5)Thisequationcanberewrittenas:w=PiαiΦ(xi)withα=(ΦTΦ+λIn)−1y.Thisisanequationthatwillbearecurrentthemeanditcanbeinterpretedas:Thesolutionwmustlieinthespanofthedata-cases,evenifthedimensionalityofthefeaturespaceismuchlargerthanthenumberofdata-cases.Thisseemsintuitivelyclear,sincethealgorithmislinearinfeaturespace.Wefinallyneedtoshowthatweneveractuallyneedaccesstothefeaturevec-tors,whichcouldbeinfinitelylong(whichwouldberatherimpractical).Whatweneedinpracticeisisthepredictedvalueforanewtestpoint,x.Thisiscomputedbyprojectingitontothesolutionw,y=wTΦ(x)=y(ΦTΦ+λIn)−1ΦTΦ(x)=y(K+λIn)−1κ(x)(10.6)whereK(bxi,bxj)=Φ(xi)TΦ(xj)andκ(x)=K(xi,x).TheimportantmessagehereisofcoursethatweonlyneedaccesstothekernelK.Wecannowaddbiastothewholestorybyaddingonemore,constantfeaturetoΦ:Φ0=1.Thevalueofw0thenrepresentsthebiassince,wTΦ=XawaΦai+w0(10.7)Hence,thestorygoesthroughunchanged. 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Chapter1DataandInformationDataiseverywhereinabundantamounts.Surveillancecamerascontinuouslycapturevideo,everytimeyoumakeaphonecallyournameandlocationgetsrecorded,oftenyourclickingpatternisrecordedwhensurfingtheweb,mostfi-nancialtransactionsarerecorded,satellitesandobservatoriesgeneratetera-bytesofdataeveryyear,theFBImaintainsaDNA-databaseofmostconvictedcrimi-nals,soonallwrittentextfromourlibrariesisdigitized,needIgoon?Butdatainitselfisuseless.Hiddeninsidethedataisvaluableinformation.Theobjectiveofmachinelearningistopulltherelevantinformationfromthedataandmakeitavailabletotheuser.Whatdowemeanby“relevantinformation”?Whenanalyzingdatawetypicallyhaveaspecificquestioninmindsuchas:“Howmanytypesofcarcanbediscernedinthisvideo”or“whatwillbeweathernextweek”.Sotheanswercantaketheformofasinglenumber(thereare5cars),orasequenceofnumbersor(thetemperaturenextweek)oracomplicatedpattern(thecloudconfigurationnextweek).Iftheanswertoourqueryisitselfcomplexweliketovisualizeitusinggraphs,bar-plotsorevenlittlemovies.Butoneshouldkeepinmindthattheparticularanalysisdependsonthetaskonehasinmind.Letmespelloutafewtasksthataretypicallyconsideredinmachinelearning:Prediction:Hereweaskourselveswhetherwecanextrapolatetheinformationinthedatatonewunseencases.Forinstance,ifIhaveadata-baseofattributesofHummerssuchasweight,color,numberofpeopleitcanholdetc.andanotherdata-baseofattributesofFerraries,thenonecantrytopredictthetypeofcar(HummerorFerrari)fromanewsetofattributes.Anotherexampleispredictingtheweather(givenalltherecordedweatherpatternsinthepast,canwepredicttheweathernextweek),orthestockprizes.1 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vsonalperspective.InsteadoftryingtocoverallaspectsoftheentirefieldIhavechosentopresentafewpopularandperhapsusefultoolsandapproaches.Butwhatwill(hopefully)besignificantlydifferentthanmostotherscientificbooksisthemannerinwhichIwillpresentthesemethods.Ihavealwaysbeenfrustratedbythelackofproperexplanationofequations.ManytimesIhavebeenstaringataformulahavingnottheslightestcluewhereitcamefromorhowitwasderived.Manybooksalsoexcelinstatingfactsinanalmostencyclopedicstyle,withoutprovidingtheproperintuitionofthemethod.Thisismyprimarymission:towriteabookwhichconveysintuition.ThefirstchapterwillbedevotedtowhyIthinkthisisimportant.MEANTFORINDUSTRYASWELLASBACKGROUNDREADING]ThisbookwaswrittenduringmysabbaticalattheRadboudtUniversityinNi-jmegen(Netherlands).Hansfordiscussiononintuition.IliketothankProf.BertKappenwholeadsanexcellentgroupofpostocsandstudentsforhishospitality.Marga,kids,UCI,... #################### File: 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70CHAPTER14.KERNELCANONICALCORRELATIONANALYSISWewanttomaximizethisobjective,becausethiswouldmaximizethecorrelationbetweentheunivariatesuandv.Notethatwedividedbythestandarddeviationoftheprojectionstoremovescaledependence.ThisexpositionisverysimilartotheFisherdiscriminantanalysisstoryandIencourageyoutorereadthat.Forinstance,thereyoucanfindhowtogeneralizetocaseswherethedataisnotcentered.Wealsointroducedthefollowing“trick”.Sincewecanrescaleaandbwithoutchangingtheproblem,wecanconstrainthemtobeequalto1.Thisthenallowsustowritetheproblemas,maximizea,bρ=E[uv]subjecttoE[u2]=1E[v2]=1(14.2)Or,ifweconstructaLagrangianandwriteouttheexpectationswefind,mina,bmaxλ1,λ2XiaTxiyTib−12λ1(XiaTxixTia−N)−12λ2(XibTyiyTib−N)(14.3)wherewehavemultipliedbyN.Let’stakederivativeswrttoaandbtoseewhattheKKTequationstellus,XixiyTib−λ1XixixTia=0(14.4)XiyixTia−λ2XiyiyTib=0(14.5)FirstnoticethatifwemultiplythefirstequationwithaTandthesecondwithbTandsubtractthetwo,whileusingtheconstraints,wearriveatλ1=λ2=λ.Next,renameSxy=PixiyTi,Sx=PixixTiandSy=PiyiyTi.Wedefinethefollowinglargermatrices:SDistheblockdiagonalmatrixwithSxandSyonthediagonalandzerosontheoff-diagonalblocks.Also,wedefineSOtobetheoff-diagonalmatrixwithSxyontheoffdiagonal.Finallywedefinec=[a,b].Thetwoequationscanthenwewrittenjointlyas,SOc=λSDc⇒S−1DSOc=λc⇒S12OS−1DS12O(S12Oc)=λ(S12Oc)(14.6)whichisagainanregulareigenvalueequationforc′=S12Oc 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26CHAPTER6.THENAIVEBAYESIANCLASSIFIERexampleofthetrafficthatitgenerates:theuniversityofCaliforniaIrvinereceivesontheorderof2millionspamemailsaday.Fortunately,thebulkoftheseemails(approximately97%)isfilteredoutordumpedintoyourspam-boxandwillreachyourattention.Howisthisdone?Well,itturnsouttobeaclassicexampleofaclassificationproblem:spamorham,that’sthequestion.Let’ssaythatspamwillreceivealabel1andhamalabel0.Ourtaskisthustolabeleachnewemailwitheither0or1.Whataretheattributes?Rephrasingthisquestion,whatwouldyoumeasureinanemailtoseeifitisspam?Certainly,ifIwouldread“viagra”inthesubjectIwouldstoprightthereanddumpitinthespam-box.Whatelse?Hereareafew:“enlargement,cheap,buy,pharmacy,money,loan,mortgage,credit”andsoon.Wecanbuildadictionaryofwordsthatwecandetectineachemail.Thisdictionarycouldalsoincludewordphrasessuchas“buynow”,“penisenlargement”,onecanmakephrasesassophisticatedasnecessary.Onecouldmeasurewhetherthewordsorphrasesappearatleastonceoronecouldcounttheactualnumberoftimestheyappear.Spammersknowaboutthewaythesespamfiltersworkandcounteractbyslightmisspellingsofcertainkeywords.Hencewemightalsowanttodetectwordslike“viagra”andsoon.Infact,asmallarmsracehasensuedwherespamfiltersandspamgeneratorsfindnewtrickstocounteractthetricksofthe“opponent”.Puttingallthesesubtletiesasideforamomentwe’llsimplyassumethatwemeasureanumberoftheseattributesforeveryemailinadataset.We’llalsoassumethatwehavespam/hamlabelsfortheseemails,whichwereacquiredbysomeoneremovingspamemailsbyhandfromhis/herinbox.Ourtaskisthentotrainapredictorforspam/hamlabelsforfutureemailswherewehaveaccesstoattributesbutnottolabels.TheNBmodeliswhatwecalla“generative”model.Thismeansthatweimaginehowthedatawasgeneratedinanabstractsense.Foremails,thisworksasfollows,animaginaryentityfirstdecideshowmanyspamandhamemailsitwillgenerateonadailybasis.Say,itdecidestogenerate40%spamand60%ham.Wewillassumethisdoesn’tchangewithtime(ofcourseitdoes,butwewillmakethissimplifyingassumptionfornow).Itwillthendecidewhatthechanceisthatacertainwordapp 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14CHAPTER3.LEARNINGconnectionbetweenlearningandcompression.Nowlet’sthinkforamomentwhatwereallymeanwith“amodel”.Amodelrepresentsourpriorknowledgeoftheworld.Itimposesstructurethatisnotnec-essarilypresentinthedata.Wecallthisthe“inductivebias”.Ourinductivebiasoftencomesintheformofaparametrizedmodel.Thatistosay,wedefineafamilyofmodelsbutletthedatadeterminewhichofthesemodelsismostappro-priate.Astronginductivebiasmeansthatwedon’tleaveflexibilityinthemodelforthedatatoworkon.Wearesoconvincedofourselvesthatwebasicallyignorethedata.Thedownsideisthatifwearecreatinga“badbias”towardstowrongmodel.Ontheotherhand,ifwearecorrect,wecanlearntheremainingdegreesoffreedominourmodelfromveryfewdata-cases.Conversely,wemayleavethedooropenforahugefamilyofpossiblemodels.Ifwenowletthedatazoominonthemodelthatbestexplainsthetrainingdataitwilloverfittothepeculiaritiesofthatdata.Nowimagineyousampled10datasetsofthesamesizeNandtraintheseveryflexiblemodelsseparatelyoneachofthesedatasets(notethatinrealityyouonlyhaveaccesstoonesuchdatasetbutpleaseplayalonginthisthoughtexperiment).Let’ssaywewanttodeterminethevalueofsomeparameterθ.Be-causethemodelsaresoflexible,wecanactuallymodeltheidiosyncrasiesofeachdataset.Theresultisthatthevalueforθislikelytobeverydifferentforeachdataset.Butbecausewedidn’timposemuchinductivebiastheaverageofmanyofsuchestimateswillbeaboutright.Wesaythatthebiasissmall,butthevari-anceishigh.Inthecaseofveryrestrictivemodelstheoppositehappens:thebiasispotentiallylargebutthevariancesmall.Notethatnotonlyisalargebiasisbad(forobviousreasons),alargevarianceisbadaswell:becauseweonlyhaveonedatasetofsizeN,ourestimatecouldbeveryfaroffsimplywewereunluckywiththedatasetweweregiven.Whatweshouldthereforestriveforistoinjectallourpriorknowledgeintothelearningproblem(thismakeslearningeasier)butavoidinjectingthewrongpriorknowledge.Ifwedon’ttrustourpriorknowledgeweshouldletthedataspeak.However,lettingthedataspeaktoomuchmightleadtooverfitting,soweneedtofindtheboundarybetweentoocomplexandtoosimpleamodelandget 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12CHAPTER3.LEARNINGderstoodthatthiswasalion.Theyunderstoodthatalllionshavetheseparticularcharacteristicsincommon,butmaydifferinsomeotherones(likethepresenceofascarsomeplace).Bobhasanotherdiseasewhichiscalledover-generalization.Oncehehasseenanobjecthebelievesalmosteverythingissome,perhapstwistedinstanceofthesameobjectclass(Infact,IseemtosufferfromthissonowandthenwhenIthinkallofmachinelearningcanbeexplainedbythisonenewexcitingprinciple).IfancestralBobwalksthesavannaandhehasjustencounteredaninstanceofalionandfledintoatreewithhisbuddies,thenexttimeheseesasquirrelhebelievesitisasmallinstanceofadangerouslionandfleesintothetreesagain.Over-generalizationseemstoberathercommonamongsmallchildren.Oneofthemainconclusionsfromthisdiscussionisthatweshouldneitherover-generalizenorover-fit.Weneedtobeontheedgeofbeingjustright.Butjustrightaboutwhat?Itdoesn’tseemthereisonecorrectGod-givendefinitionofthecategorychairs.Weseemtoallagree,butonecansurelyfindexamplesthatwouldbedifficulttoclassify.Whendowegeneralizeexactlyright?ThemagicwordisPREDICTION.Fromanevolutionarystandpoint,allwehavetodoismakecorrectpredictionsaboutaspectsoflifethathelpussurvive.Nobodyreallycaresaboutthedefinitionoflion,butwedocareabouttheourresponsestothevariousanimals(runawayforlion,chasefordeer).Andtherearealotofthingsthatcanbepredictedintheworld.Thisfoodkillsmebutthatfoodisgoodforme.Drummingmyfistsonmyhairychestinfrontofafemalegeneratesopportunitiesforsex,stickingmyhandintothatyellow-orangeflickering“flame”hurtsmyhandandsoon.Theworldiswonderfullypredictableandweareverygoodatpredictingit.Sowhydowecareaboutobjectcategoriesinthefirstplace?Well,apparentlytheyhelpusorganizetheworldandmakeaccuratepredictions.Thecategorylionsisanabstractionandabstractionshelpustogeneralize.Inacertainsense,learningisallaboutfindingusefulabstractionsorconceptsthatdescribetheworld.Taketheconcept“fluid”,itdescribesallwaterysubstancesandsummarizessomeoftheirphysicalproperties.Otheconceptof“weight”:anabstractionthatdescribesacertainproperty 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30CHAPTER6.THENAIVEBAYESIANCLASSIFIER6.4RegularizationThespamfilteralgorithmthatwediscussedintheprevioussectionsdoesunfortu-natelynotworkverywellifwewishtousemanyattributes(words,word-phrases).Thereasonisthatformanyattributeswemaynotencounterasingleexampleinthedataset.Sayforexamplethatwedefinedtheword“Nigeria”asanattribute,butthatourdatasetdidnotincludeoneofthosespamemailswhereyouarepromisedmountainsofgoldifyouinvestyourmoneyinsomeonebankinNigeria.AlsoassumethereareindeedafewhamemailswhichtalkaboutthenicepeopleinNigeria.ThenanyfutureemailthatmentionsNigeriaisclassifiedashamwith100%certainty.Moreimportantly,onecannotrecoverfromthisdecisioneveniftheemailalsomentionsviagra,enlargement,mortgageandsoon,allinasingleemail!ThiscanbeseenbythefactthatlogPspam(X“Nigeria”>0)=−∞whilethefinalscoreisasumoftheseindividualword-scores.Tocounteractthisphenomenon,wegiveeachwordinthedictionaryasmallprobabilityofbeingpresentinanyemail(spamorham),beforeseeingthedata.Thisprocessiscalledsmoothing.Theimpactontheestimatedprobabilitiesaregivenbelow,Pspam(Xi=j)=α+PnI[Xin=j∧Yn=1]Viα+PnI[Yn=1](6.12)Pham(Xi=j)=α+PnI[Xin=j∧Yn=0]Viα+PnI[Yn=0](6.13)whereViisthenumberofpossiblevaluesofattributei.Thus,αcanbeinterpretedasasmall,possiblyfractionalnumberof“pseudo-observations”oftheattributeinquestion.It’slikeaddingtheseobservationstotheactualdataset.Whatvalueforαdoweuse?Fittingitsvalueonthedatasetwillnotwork,becausethereasonweaddeditwasexactlybecauseweassumedtherewastoolittledatainthefirstplace(wehadn’treceivedoneofthoseannoying“Nigeria”emailsyet)andthuswillrelatetothephenomenonofoverfitting.However,wecanusethetrickdescribedinsection??wherewesplitthedatatwopieces.Welearnamodelononechunkandadjustαsuchthatperformanceoftheotherchunkisoptimal.Weplaythisgamethismultipletimeswithdifferentsplitsandaveragetheresults. 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66CHAPTER13.FISHERLINEARDISCRIMINANTANALYSISThisisacentralrecurrentequationthatkeepspoppingupineverykernelmachine.Itsaysthatalthoughthefeaturespaceisveryhigh(oreveninfinite)dimensional,withafinitenumberofdata-casesthefinalsolution,w∗,willnothaveacomponentoutsidethespacespannedbythedata-cases.Itwouldnotmakemuchsensetodothistransformationifthenumberofdata-casesislargerthanthenumberofdimensions,butthisistypicallynotthecaseforkernel-methods.So,wearguethatalthoughtherearepossiblyinfinitedimensionsavailableapriori,atmostNarebeingoccupiedbythedata,andthesolutionwmustlieinitsspan.Thisisacaseofthe“representerstheorem”thatintuitivelyreasonsasfollows.Thesolutionwisthesolutiontosomeeigenvalueequation,S12BS−1WS12Bw=λw,wherebothSBandSW(andhenceitsinverse)lieinthespanofthedata-cases.Hence,thepartw⊥thatisperpendiculartothisspanwillbeprojectedtozeroandtheequationaboveputsnoconstraintsonthosedimensions.Theycanbearbitraryandhavenoimpactonthesolution.Ifwenowassumeaverygeneralformofregularizationonthenormofw,thentheseorthogonalcomponentswillbesettozerointhefinalsolution:w⊥=0.IntermsofαtheobjectiveJ(α)becomes,J(α)=αTSΦBααTSΦWα(13.14)whereitisunderstoodthatvectornotationnowappliestoadifferentspace,namelythespacespannedbythedata-vectors,RN.Thescattermatricesinkernelspacecanexpressedintermsofthekernelonlyasfollows(thisrequiressomealgebratoverify),SΦB=XcNc(cid:2)κcκTc−κκT(cid:3)(13.15)SΦW=K2−XcNcκcκTc(13.16)κc=1NcXi∈cKij(13.17)κ=1NXiKij(13.18)So,wehavemanagedtoexpresstheproblemintermsofkernelsonlywhichiswhatwewereafter.Notethatsincetheobjectiveintermsofαhasexactlythesameformasthatintermsofw,wecansolveitbysolvingthegeneralized 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6.2.LEARNINGANAIVEBAYESCLASSIFIER27order.6.2LearningaNaiveBayesClassifierGivenadataset,{Xin,Yn},i=1..D,n=1..N,wewishtoestimatewhattheseprobabilitiesare.Tostartwiththesimplestone,whatwouldbeagoodestimateforthenumberofthepercentageofspamversushamemailsthatourimaginaryentityusestogenerateemails?Well,wecansimplycounthowmanyspamandhamemailswehaveinourdata.Thisisgivenby,P(spam)=#spamemailstotal#emails=PnI[Yn=1]N(6.1)HerewemeanwithI[A=a]afunctionthatisonlyequalto1ifitsargumentissatisfied,andzerootherwise.Hence,intheequationaboveitcountsthenumberofinstancesthatYn=1.Sincetheremainderoftheemailsmustbeham,wealsofindthatP(ham)=1−P(spam)=#hamemailstotal#emails=PnI[Yn=0]N(6.2)wherewehaveusedthatP(ham)+P(spam)=1sinceanemailiseitherhamorspam.Next,weneedtoestimatehowoftenweexpecttoseeacertainwordorphraseineitheraspamorahamemail.Inourexamplewecouldforinstanceaskourselveswhattheprobabilityisthatwefindtheword“viagra”ktimes,withk=0,1,>1,inaspamemail.Let’srecodethisasXviagra=0meaningthatwedidn’tobserve“viagra”,Xviagra=1meaningthatweobserveditonceandXviagra=2meaningthatweobserveditmorethanonce.Theanswerisagainthatwecancounthowoftentheseeventshappenedinourdataandusethatasanestimatefortherealprobabilitiesaccordingtowhichitgeneratedemails.Firstforspamwefind,Pspam(Xi=j)=#spamemailsforwhichthewordiwasfoundjtimestotal#ofspamemails(6.3)=PnI[Xin=j∧Yn=1]PnI[Yn=1](6.4)Herewehavedefinedthesymbol∧tomeanthatbothstatementstotheleftandrightofthissymbolshouldholdtrueinorderfortheentiresentencetobetrue. 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1.1.DATAREPRESENTATION3standardformatsothatthealgorithmsthatwewilldiscusscanbeappliedtoit.Mostdatasetscanberepresentedasamatrix,X=[Xin],withrowsindexedby“attribute-index”iandcolumnsindexedby“data-index”n.ThevalueXinforattributeianddata-casencanbebinary,real,discreteetc.,dependingonwhatwemeasure.Forinstance,ifwemeasureweightandcolorof100cars,thematrixXis2×100dimensionalandX1,20=20,684.57istheweightofcarnr.20insomeunits(arealvalue)whileX2,20=2isthecolorofcarnr.20(sayoneof6predefinedcolors).Mostdatasetscanbecastinthisform(butnotall).Fordocuments,wecangiveeachdistinctwordofaprespecifiedvocabularyanr.andsimplycounthowoftenawordwaspresent.Saytheword“book”isdefinedtohavenr.10,568inthevocabularythenX10568,5076=4wouldmean:thewordbookappeared4timesindocument5076.Sometimesthedifferentdata-casesdonothavethesamenumberofattributes.Considersearchingtheinternetforimagesaboutrats.You’llretrievealargevarietyofimagesmostwithadifferentnumberofpixels.Wecaneithertrytorescaletheimagestoacommonsizeorwecansimplyleavethoseentriesinthematrixempty.Itmayalsooccurthatacertainentryissupposedtobetherebutitcouldn’tbemeasured.Forinstance,ifwerunanopticalcharacterrecognitionsystemonascanneddocumentsomeletterswillnotberecognized.We’lluseaquestionmark“?”,toindicatethatthatentrywasn’tobserved.Itisveryimportanttorealizethattherearemanywaystorepresentdataandnotallareequallysuitableforanalysis.BythisImeanthatinsomerepresen-tationthestructuremaybeobviouswhileinotherrepresentationismaybecometotallyobscure.Itisstillthere,butjusthardertofind.Thealgorithmsthatwewilldiscussarebasedoncertainassumptions,suchas,“HummersandFerrariescanbeseparatedwithbyaline,seefigure??.Whilethismaybetrueifwemeasureweightinkilogramsandheightinmeters,itisnolongertrueifwedecidetore-codethesenumbersintobit-strings.Thestructureisstillinthedata,butwewouldneedamuchmorecomplexassumptiontodiscoverit.Alessontobelearnedisthustospendsometimethinkingaboutinwhichrepresentationthestructureisasobviousaspossibleandtransformthedataifnecessarybeforeap 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14.1.KERNELCCA7114.1KernelCCAAsusual,thestartingpointtomapthedata-casestofeaturevectorsΦ(xi)andΨ(yi).Whenthedimensionalityofthespaceislargerthanthenumberofdata-casesinthetraining-set,thenthesolutionmustlieinthespanofdata-cases,i.e.a=XiαiΦ(xi)b=XiβiΨ(yi)(14.7)UsingthisequationintheLagrangianweget,L=αTKxKyβ−12λ(αTK2xα−N)−12λ(βTK2yβ−N)(14.8)whereαisavectorinadifferentN-dimensionalspacethane.g.awhichlivesinaD-dimensionalspace,andKx=PiΦ(xi)TΦ(xi)andsimilarlyforKy.Takingderivativesw.r.t.αandβwefind,KxKyβ=λK2xα(14.9)KyKxα=λK2yβ(14.10)Let’strytosolvetheseequationsbyassumingthatKxisfullrank(whichistyp-icallythecase).Weget,α=λ−1K−1xKyβandhence,K2yβ=λ2K2yβwhichalwayshasasolutionforλ=1.Byrecallingthat,ρ=1NXiaTSxyb=1NXiλaTSxa=λ(14.11)weobservethatthisrepresentsthesolutionwithmaximalcorrelationandhencethepreferredone.Thisisatypicalcaseofover-fittingemphasizesagaintheneedtoregularizeinkernelmethods.ThiscanbedonebyaddingadiagonaltermtotheconstraintsintheLagrangian(orequivalentlytothedenominatoroftheoriginalobjective),leadingtotheLagrangian,L=αTKxKyβ−12λ(αTK2xα+η||α||2−N)−12λ(βTK2yβ+η||β||2−N)(14.12)Onecanseethatthisactsasaquadraticpenaltyonthenormofαandβ.Theresultingequationsare,KxKyβ=λ(K2x+ηI)α(14.13)KyKxα=λ(K2y+ηI)β(14.14) 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64CHAPTER13.FISHERLINEARDISCRIMINANTANALYSISthescattermatricesare:SB=XcNc(µc−¯x)(µc−¯x)T(13.2)SW=XcXi∈c(xi−µc)(xi−µc)T(13.3)where,µc=1NcXi∈cxi(13.4)¯x==1NXixi=1NXcNcµc(13.5)andNcisthenumberofcasesinclassc.Oftentimesyouwillseethatfor2classesSBisdefinedasS′B=(µ1−µ2)(µ1−µ2)T.Thisisthescatterofclass1withrespecttothescatterofclass2andyoucanshowthatSB=N1N2NS′B,butsinceitboilsdowntomultiplyingtheobjectivewithaconstantismakesnodifferencetothefinalsolution.Whydoesthisobjectivemakesense.Well,itsaysthatagoodsolutionisonewheretheclass-meansarewellseparated,measuredrelativetothe(sumofthe)variancesofthedataassignedtoaparticularclass.Thisispreciselywhatwewant,becauseitimpliesthatthegapbetweentheclassesisexpectedtobebig.Itisalsointerestingtoobservethatsincethetotalscatter,ST=Xi(xi−¯x)(xi−¯x)T(13.6)isgivenbyST=SW+SBtheobjectivecanberewrittenas,J(w)=wTSTwwTSWw−1(13.7)andhencecanbeinterpretedasmaximizingthetotalscatterofthedatawhileminimizingthewithinscatteroftheclasses.AnimportantpropertytonoticeabouttheobjectiveJisthatisisinvariantw.r.t.rescalingsofthevectorsw→αw.Hence,wecanalwayschoosewsuchthatthedenominatorissimplywTSWw=1,sinceitisascalaritself.Forthisrea-sonwecantransformtheproblemofmaximizingJintothefollowingconstrained 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40CHAPTER8.SUPPORTVECTORMACHINESi.e.wefindthatfortheoffsetb=aTw,whichistheprojectionofaontotothevectorw.Withoutlossofgeneralitywemaythuschooseaperpendiculartotheplane,inwhichcasethelength||a||=|b|/||w||representstheshortest,orthogonaldistancebetweentheoriginandthehyperplane.Wenowdefine2morehyperplanesparalleltotheseparatinghyperplane.Theyrepresentthatplanesthatcutthroughtheclosesttrainingexamplesoneitherside.Wewillcallthem“supporthyper-planes”inthefollowing,becausethedata-vectorstheycontainsupporttheplane.Wedefinethedistancebetweenthethesehyperplanesandtheseparatinghy-perplanetobed+andd−respectively.Themargin,γ,isdefinedtobed++d−.Ourgoalisnowtofindatheseparatinghyperplanesothatthemarginislargest,whiletheseparatinghyperplaneisequidistantfromboth.Wecanwritethefollowingequationsforthesupporthyperplanes:wTx=b+δ(8.1)wTx=b−δ(8.2)Wenownotethatwehaveover-parameterizedtheproblem:ifwescalew,bandδbyaconstantfactorα,theequationsforxarestillsatisfied.Toremovethisambiguitywewillrequirethatδ=1,thissetsthescaleoftheproblem,i.e.ifwemeasuredistanceinmillimetersormeters.Wecannowalsocomputethevaluesford+=(||b+1|−|b||)/||w||=1/||w||(thisisonlytrueifb/∈(−1,0)sincetheorigindoesn’tfallinbetweenthehyper-planesinthatcase.Ifb∈(−1,0)youshouldused+=(||b+1|+|b||)/||w||=1/||w||).Hencethemarginisequaltotwicethatvalue:γ=2/||w||.Withtheabovedefinitionofthesupportplaneswecanwritedownthefollow-ingconstraintthatanysolutionmustsatisfy,wTxi−b≤−1∀yi=−1(8.3)wTxi−b≥+1∀yi=+1(8.4)orinoneequation,yi(wTxi−b)−1≥0(8.5)WenowformulatetheprimalproblemoftheSVM:minimizew,b12||w||2subjecttoyi(wTxi−b)−1≥0∀i(8.6) 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7.1.THEPERCEPTRONMODEL35Weliketoestimatetheseparametersfromthedata(whichwewilldoinaminute),butitisimportanttonoticethatthenumberofparametersisfixedinadvance.Insomesense,webelievesomuchinourassumptionthatthedataislinearlyseparablethatwesticktoitirrespectiveofhowmanydata-caseswewillencounter.Thisfixedcapacityofthemodelistypicalforparametricmethods,butperhapsalittleunrealisticforrealdata.Amorereasonableassumptionisthatthedecisionboundarymaybecomemorecomplexasweseemoredata.Toofewdata-casessimplydonotprovidetheresolution(evidence)necessarytoseemorecomplexstructureinthedecisionboundary.Recallthatnon-parametricmethods,suchasthe“nearest-neighbors”classifiersactuallydohavethisdesirablefeature.Nevertheless,thelinearseparabilityassumptioncomeswithsomecomputationadvantagesaswell,suchasveryfastclasspredictiononnewtestdata.Ibelievethatthiscomputationalconveniencemaybeattherootforitspopularity.Bytheway,whenwetakethelimitofaninfinitenumberoffeatures,wewillhavehappilyreturnedthelandof“non-parametrics”butwehaveexercisealittlepatiencebeforewegetthere.Nowlet’swritedownacostfunctionthatwewishtominimizeinorderforourlineardecisionboundarytobecomeagoodclassifier.Clearly,wewouldliketocontrolperformanceonfuture,yetunseentestdata.However,thisisalittlehard(sincewedon’thaveaccesstothisdatabydefinition).Asasurrogatewewillsimplyfitthelineparametersonthetrainingdata.Itcannotbestressedenoughthatthisisdangerousinprincipleduetothephenomenonofoverfitting(seesec-tion??).Ifwehaveintroducedverymanyfeaturesandnoformofregularizationthenwehavemanyparameterstofit.Whenthiscapacityistoolargerelativetothenumberofdatacasesatourdisposal,wewillbefittingtheidiosyncrasiesofthisparticulardatasetandthesewillnotcarryovertothefuturetestdata.So,oneshouldsplitofasubsetofthetrainingdataandreserveitformonitoringper-formance(oneshouldnotusethissetinthetrainingprocedure).Cyclingthoughmultiplesplitsandaveragingtheresultwasthecross-validationproceduredis-cussedinsection??.Ifwedonotusetoomanyfeaturesrelativetothenumberofdata-cas 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Chapter8SupportVectorMachinesOurtaskistopredictwhetheratestsamplebelongstooneoftwoclasses.Wereceivetrainingexamplesoftheform:{xi,yi},i=1,...,nandxi∈Rd,yi∈{−1,+1}.Wecall{xi}theco-variatesorinputvectorsand{yi}theresponsevariablesorlabels.Weconsideraverysimpleexamplewherethedataareinfactlinearlysepa-rable:i.e.Icandrawastraightlinef(x)=wTx−bsuchthatallcaseswithyi=−1fallononesideandhavef(xi)<0andcaseswithyi=+1fallontheotherandhavef(xi)>0.Giventhatwehaveachievedthat,wecouldclassifynewtestcasesaccordingtotheruleytest=sign(xtest).However,typicallythereareinfinitelymanysuchhyper-planesobtainedbysmallperturbationsofagivensolution.Howdowechoosebetweenallthesehyper-planeswhichthesolvetheseparationproblemforourtrainingdata,butmayhavedifferentperformanceonthenewlyarrivingtestcases.Forinstance,wecouldchoosetoputthelineveryclosetomembersofoneparticularclass,sayy=−1.Intuitively,whentestcasesarrivewewillnotmakemanymistakesoncasesthatshouldbeclassifiedwithy=+1,butwewillmakeveryeasilymistakesonthecaseswithy=−1(forinstance,imaginethatanewbatchoftestcasesarriveswhicharesmallperturbationsofthetrainingdata).Asensiblethingthusseemstochoosetheseparationlineasfarawayfrombothy=−1andy=+1trainingcasesaswecan,i.e.rightinthemiddle.Geometrically,thevectorwisdirectedorthogonaltothelinedefinedbywTx=b.Thiscanbeunderstoodasfollows.Firsttakeb=0.Nowitisclearthatallvec-tors,x,withvanishinginnerproductwithwsatisfythisequation,i.e.allvectorsorthogonaltowsatisfythisequation.Nowtranslatethehyperplaneawayfromtheoriginoveravectora.Theequationfortheplanenowbecomes:(x−a)Tw=0,39 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6.3.CLASS-PREDICTIONFORNEWINSTANCES29wherewithviwemeanthevalueforattributeithatweobserveintheemailunderconsideration,i.e.iftheemailcontainsnomentionoftheword“viagra”wesetvviagra=0.ThefirstterminEqn.6.7addsallthelog-probabilitiesunderthespammodelofobservingtheparticularvalueofeachattribute.Everytimeawordisobservedthathashighprobabilityforthespammodel,andhencehasoftenbeenobservedinthedataset,willboostthisscore.Thelasttermaddsanextrafactortothescorethatexpressesourpriorbeliefofreceivingaspamemailinsteadofahamemail.Wecomputeasimilarscoreforham,namely,Sham=XilogPham(Xi=vi)+logP(ham)(6.8)andcomparethetwoscores.Clearly,alargescoreforspamrelativetohampro-videsevidencethattheemailisindeedspam.Ifyourgoalistominimizethetotalnumberoferrors(whethertheyinvolvespamorham)thenthedecisionshouldbetochoosetheclasswhichhasthehighestscore.Inreality,onetypeoferrorcouldhavemoreseriousconsequencesthanan-other.Forinstance,aspamemailmakingitinmyinboxisnottoobad,badanimportantemailthatendsupinmyspam-box(whichInevercheck)mayhaveseriousconsequences.Toaccountforthisweintroduceageneralthresholdθandusethefollowingdecisionrule,Y=1ifS1>S0+θ(6.9)Y=0ifS10(5.1)Yt=0ifXn∈SK(Xt,Xn)(2Yn−1)<0(5.2)(5.3)andflippingacoinifitisexactly0.Whydoweexpectthisalgorithmtoworkintuitively?Thereasonisthatweexpectdata-caseswithsimilarlabelstoclustertogetherinattributespace.Soto21 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49Fromthecomplementaryslacknessconditionswecanreadthesparsenessofthesolutionout:αi(wTΦi+b−yi−ε−ξi)=0(9.6)ˆαi(yi−wTΦi−b−ε−ˆξi)=0(9.7)ξiˆξi=0,αiˆαi=0(9.8)whereweaddedthelastconditionsbyhand(theydon’tseemtodirectlyfollowfromtheformulation).Nowweclearlyseethatifacaseisabovethetubeˆξiwilltakeonitssmallestpossiblevalueinordertomaketheconstraintssatisfiedˆξi=yi−wTΦi−b−ε.Thisimpliesthatˆαiwilltakeonapositivevalueandthefartheroutsidethetubethelargertheˆαi(youcanthinkofitasacompensatingforce).Notethatinthiscaseαi=0.Asimilarstorygoesifξi>0andαi>0.Ifadata-caseisinsidethetubetheαi,ˆαiarenecessarilyzero,andhenceweobtainsparseness.WenowchangevariablestomakethisoptimizationproblemlookmoresimilartotheSVMandridge-regressioncase.Introduceβi=ˆαi−αianduseˆαiαi=0towriteˆαi+αi=|βi|,maximizeβ−12Xijβiβj(Kij+1Cδij)+Xiβiyi−Xi|βi|εsubjecttoXiβi=0(9.9)wheretheconstraintcomesfromthefactthatweincludedabiasterm1b.Fromtheslacknessconditionswecanalsofindavalueforb(similartotheSVMcase).Also,asusual,thepredictionofnewdata-caseisgivenby,y=wTΦ(x)+b=XiβiK(xi,x)+b(9.10)Itisaninterestingexerciseforthereadertoworkherwaythroughthecase1Notebythewaythatwecouldnotusethetrickweusedinridge-regressionbydefiningaconstantfeatureφ0=1andb=w0.Thereasonisthattheobjectivedoesnotdependonb. 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8CHAPTER2.DATAVISUALIZATIONetc.AnexampleofsuchascatterplotisgiveninFigure??.Notethatwehaveatotalofd(d−1)/2possibletwodimensionalprojectionswhichamountsto4950projectionsfor100dimensionaldata.Thisisusuallytoomanytomanuallyinspect.Howdowecutdownonthenumberofdimensions?perhapsrandomprojectionsmaywork?Unfortunatelythatturnsouttobenotagreatideainmanycases.ThereasonisthatdataprojectedonarandomsubspaceoftenlooksdistributedaccordingtowhatisknownasaGaussiandistribution(seeFigure??).Thedeeperreasonbehindthisphenomenonisthecentrallimittheo-remwhichstatesthatthesumofalargenumberofindependentrandomvariablesis(undercertainconditions)distributedasaGaussiandistribution.Hence,ifwedenotewithwavectorinRdandbyxthed-dimensionalrandomvariable,theny=wTxisthevalueoftheprojection.Thisisclearlyisaweightedsumoftherandomvariablesxi,i=1..d.Ifweassumethatxiareapproximatelyin-dependent,thenwecanseethattheirsumwillbegovernedbythiscentrallimittheorem.Analogously,adataset{Xin}canthusbevisualizedinonedimensionby“histogramming”1thevaluesofY=wTX,seeFigure??.Inthisfigureweclearlyrecognizethecharacteristic“Bell-shape”oftheGaussiandistributionofprojectedandhistogrammeddata.Inonesensethecentrallimittheoremisaratherhelpfulquirkofnature.ManyvariablesfollowGaussiandistributionsandtheGaussiandistributionisoneofthefewdistributionswhichhaveveryniceanalyticproperties.Unfortunately,theGaussiandistributionisalsothemostuninformativedistribution.Thisnotionof“uninformative”canactuallybemadeverypreciseusinginformationtheoryandstates:Givenafixedmeanandvariance,theGaussiandensityrepresentstheleastamountofinformationamongalldensitieswiththesamemeanandvariance.ThisisratherunfortunateforourpurposesbecauseGaussianprojectionsaretheleastrevealingdimensionstolookat.Soingeneralwehavetoworkabithardertoseeinterestingstructure.Alargenumberofalgorithmshasbeendevisedtosearchforinformativepro-jections.Thesimplestbeing“principalcomponentanalysis”orPCAforshort??.Here,interestingmeansdimensionsofhighvariance.However,itwasrecognizedthathig 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36CHAPTER7.THEPERCEPTRONwherewehaverewrittenwTXn=PkwkXkn.IfweminimizethiscostthenwTXn−αtendstobepositivewhenYn=+1andnegativewhenYn=−1.Thisiswhatwewant!OnceoptimizedwecantheneasilyuseouroptimalparameterstoperformpredictiononnewtestdataXtestasfollows:˜Ytest=sign(Xkw∗kXtest−α∗)(7.3)where˜YisusedtoindicatethepredictedvalueforY.Sofarsogood,buthowdoweobtainourvaluesfor{w∗,α∗}?Thesimplestapproachistocomputethegradientandslowlydescentonthecostfunction(seeappendix??forbackground).Inthiscase,thegradientsaresimple:∇wC(w,α)=−1nnXi=1(Yn−wTXn+α)Xn=−X(Y−XTw+α)(7.4)∇αC(w,α)=1nnXi=1(Yn−wTXn+α)=(Y−XTw+α)(7.5)whereinthelattermatrixexpressionwehaveusedtheconventionthatXisthematrixwithelementsXkn.Ourgradientdescentisnowsimplygivenas,wt+1=wt−η∇wC(wt,αt)(7.6)αt+1=αt−η∇αC(wt,αt)(7.7)Iteratingtheseequationsuntilconvergencewillminimizethecostfunction.Onemaycriticizeplainvanillagradientdescentformanyreasons.Forexampleyouneedtobecarefullychoosethestepsizeηorriskeitherexcruciatinglyslowconver-genceorexplodingvaluesoftheiterateswt,αt.Evenifconvergenceisachievedasymptotically,itistypicallyslow.UsingaNewton-Ralphsonmethodwillim-proveconvergencepropertiesconsiderablybutisalsoveryexpensive.Manymeth-odshavebeendevelopedtoimprovetheoptimizationofthecostfunction,butthatisnotthefocusofthisbook.However,Idowanttomentionaverypopularapproachtooptimizationonverylargedatasetsknownas“stochasticgradientdescent”.Theideaistoselectasingledata-itemrandomlyandperformanupdateontheparametersbasedonthat:wt+1=wt+η(Yn−wTXn+α)Xn(7.8)αt+1=αt=η(Yn−wTXn+α)(7.9) 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48CHAPTER9.SUPPORTVECTORREGRESSIONandfrombelow,minimize−w,ξ,ˆξ12||w||2+C2Xi(ξ2i+ˆξ2i)subjecttowTΦi+b−yi≤ε+ξi∀iyi−wTΦi−b≤ε+ˆξi∀i(9.1)TheprimalLagrangianbecomes,LP=12||w||2+C2Xi(ξ2i+ˆξ2i)+Xiαi(wTΦi+b−yi−ε−ξi)+Xiˆαi(yi−wTΦi−b−ε−ˆξi)(9.2)RemarkI:Wecouldhaveaddedtheconstraintsthatξi≥0andˆξi≥0.However,itisnothardtoseethatthefinalsolutionwillhavethatrequirementautomaticallyandthereisnosenseinconstrainingtheoptimizationtotheoptimalsolutionaswell.Toseethis,imaginesomeξiisnegative,then,bysettingξi=0thecostislowerandnonoftheconstraintsisviolated,soitispreferred.Wealsonoteduetotheabovereasoningwewillalwayshaveatleastoneoftheξ,ˆξzero,i.e.insidethetubebotharezero,outsidethetubeoneofthemiszero.Thismeansthatatthesolutionwehaveξˆξ=0.RemarkII:Notethatwedon’tscaleε=1likeintheSVMcase.Thereasonisthat{yi}nowdeterminesthescaleoftheproblem,i.e.wehavenotover-parameterizedtheproblem.Wenowtakethederivativesw.r.t.w,b,ξandˆξtofindthefollowingKKTconditions(therearemoreofcourse),w=Xi(ˆαi−αi)Φi(9.3)ξi=αi/Cˆξi=ˆαi/C(9.4)Pluggingthisbackinandusingthatnowwealsohaveαiˆαi=0wefindthedualproblem,maximizeα,ˆα−12Xij(ˆαi−αi)(ˆαj−αj)(Kij+1Cδij)+Xi(ˆαi−αi)yi−Xi(ˆαi+αi)εsubjecttoXi(ˆαi−αi)=0αi≥0,ˆαi≥0∀i(9.5) 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ivPREFACEabout60%correcton100categories),thefactthatwepullitoffseeminglyeffort-lesslyservesasa“proofofconcept”thatitcanbedone.Butthereisnodoubtinmymindthatbuildingtrulyintelligentmachineswillinvolvelearningfromdata.Thefirstreasonfortherecentsuccessesofmachinelearningandthegrowthofthefieldasawholeisrootedinitsmultidisciplinarycharacter.MachinelearningemergedfromAIbutquicklyincorporatedideasfromfieldsasdiverseasstatis-tics,probability,computerscience,informationtheory,convexoptimization,con-troltheory,cognitivescience,theoreticalneuroscience,physicsandmore.Togiveanexample,themainconferenceinthisfieldiscalled:advancesinneuralinformationprocessingsystems,referringtoinformationtheoryandtheoreticalneuroscienceandcognitivescience.Thesecond,perhapsmoreimportantreasonforthegrowthofmachinelearn-ingistheexponentialgrowthofbothavailabledataandcomputerpower.Whilethefieldisbuildontheoryandtoolsdevelopedstatisticsmachinelearningrecog-nizesthatthemostexitingprogresscanbemadetoleveragetheenormousfloodofdatathatisgeneratedeachyearbysatellites,skyobservatories,particleaccel-erators,thehumangenomeproject,banks,thestockmarket,thearmy,seismicmeasurements,theinternet,video,scannedtextandsoon.Itisdifficulttoap-preciatetheexponentialgrowthofdatathatoursocietyisgenerating.Togiveanexample,amodernsatellitegeneratesroughlythesameamountofdataallprevioussatellitesproducedtogether.Thisinsighthasshiftedtheattentionfromhighlysophisticatedmodelingtechniquesonsmalldatasetstomorebasicanaly-sisonmuchlargerdata-sets(thelattersometimescalleddata-mining).Hencetheemphasisshiftedtoalgorithmicefficiencyandasaresultmanymachinelearningfaculty(likemyself)cantypicallybefoundincomputersciencedepartments.Togivesomeexamplesofrecentsuccessesofthisapproachonewouldonlyhavetoturnononecomputerandperformaninternetsearch.Modernsearchenginesdonotrunterriblysophisticatedalgorithms,buttheymanagetostoreandsiftthroughalmosttheentirecontentoftheinternettoreturnsensiblesearchresults.Therehasalsobeenmuchsuccessinthefieldofmachine 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34CHAPTER7.THEPERCEPTRONIliketowarnthereaderatthispointthatmorefeaturesisnotnecessarilyagoodthingifthenewfeaturesareuninformativefortheclassificationtaskathand.Theproblemisthattheyintroducenoiseintheinputthatcanmasktheactualsignal(i.e.thegood,discriminativefeatures).Infact,thereisawholesubfieldofMLthatdealswithselectingrelevantfeaturesfromasetthatistoolarge.Theproblemoftoomanydimensionsissometimescalled“thecurseofhighdimensionality”.Anotherwayofseeingthisisthatmoredimensionsoftenleadtomoreparametersinthemodel(asinthecasefortheperceptron)andcanhenceleadtooverfitting.Tocombatthatinturnwecanaddregularizersaswewillseeinthefollowing.Withtheintroductionofregularizers,wecansometimesplaymagicanduseaninfinitenumberoffeatures.Howweplaythismagicwillbeexplainedwhenwewilldiscusskernelmethodsinthenextsections.Butletusfirststartsimplewiththeperceptron.7.1ThePerceptronModelOurassumptionisthatalinecanseparatethetwoclassesofinterest.TomakeourlifealittleeasierwewillswitchtotheY={+1,−1}representation.Withthis,wecanexpresstheconditionmathematicallyexpressedas1,Yn≈sign(XkwkXkn−α)(7.1)where“sign”isthesign-function(+1fornonnegativerealsand−1fornegativereals).WehaveintroducedK+1parameters{w1,..,wK,α}whichdefinethelineforus.ThevectorwrepresentsthedirectionorthogonaltothedecisionboundarydepictedinFigure??.Forexample,alinethroughtheoriginisrepresentedbywTx=0,i.e.allvectorsxwithavanishinginnerproductwithw.ThescalarquantityαrepresentstheoffsetofthelinewTx=0fromtheorigin,i.e.theshortestdistancefromtheorigintotheline.Thiscanbeseenbywritingthepointsonthelineasx=y+vwhereyisafixedvectorpointingtoanarbitrarypointonthelineandvisthevectoronthelinestartingaty(seeFigure??).Hence,wT(y+v)−α=0.SincebydefinitionwTv=0,wefindwTy=αwhichmeansthatαistheprojectionofyontowwhichistheshortestdistancefromtheorigintotheline.1NotethatwecanreplaceXk→φk(X)butthatforthesakeofsimplicitywewillrefrainfromdoingsoatthispoint. 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Chapter4TypesofMachineLearningWenowwillturnourattentionanddiscusssomelearningproblemsthatwewillencounterinthisbook.ThemostwellstudiedprobleminMListhatofsupervisedlearning.Toexplainthis,let’sfirstlookatanexample.Bobwanttolearnhowtodistinguishbetweenbobcatsandmountainlions.HetypesthesewordsintoGoogleImageSearchandcloselystudiesallcatlikeimagesofbobcatsontheonehandandmountainlionsontheother.SomemonthslateronahikingtripintheSanBernardinomountainsheseesabigcat....ThedatathatBobcollectedwaslabelledbecauseGoogleissupposedtoonlyreturnpicturesofbobcatswhenyousearchfortheword”bobcat”(andsimilarlyformountainlions).Let’scalltheimagesX1,..XnandthelabelsY1,...,Yn.NotethatXiaremuchhigherdimensionalobjectsbecausetheyrepresentallthein-formationextractedfromtheimage(approximately1millionpixelcolorvalues),whileYiissimply−1or1dependingonhowwechoosetolabelourclasses.So,thatwouldbearatioofabout1millionto1intermsofinformationcontent!Theclassificationproblemcanusuallybeposedasfinding(a.k.a.learning)afunctionf(x)thatapproximatesthecorrectclasslabelsforanyinputx.Forinstance,wemaydecidethatsign[f(x)]isthepredictorforourclasslabel.Inthefollowingwewillbestudyingquiteafewoftheseclassificationalgorithms.Thereisalsoadifferentfamilyoflearningproblemsknownasunsupervisedlearningproblems.InthiscasetherearenolabelsYinvolved,justthefeaturesX.Ourtaskisnottoclassify,buttoorganizethedata,ortodiscoverthestructureinthedata.Thismaybeveryusefulforvisualizationdata,compressingdata,ororganizingdataforeasyaccessibility.Extractingstructureindataoftenleadstothediscoveryofconcepts,topics,abstractions,factors,causes,andmoresuchtermsthatallreallymeanthesamething.Thesearetheunderlyingsemantic17 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74APPENDIXA.ESSENTIALSOFCONVEXOPTIMIZATIONItisimportanttonoticethatthedualLagrangianisaconcavefunctionofλ,νbecauseitisapointwiseinfimumofafamilyoflinearfunctionsinλ,νfunction.Hence,eveniftheprimalisnotconvex,thedualiscertainlyconcave!ItisnothardtoshowthatLD(λ,ν)≤p∗(A.4)wherep∗istheprimaloptimalpoint.ThissimplyfollowsbecausePiλifi(x)+Pjνjhj(x)≤0foraprimalfeasiblepointx∗.Thus,thedualproblemalwaysprovideslowerboundtotheprimalproblem.Theoptimallowerboundcanbefoundbysolvingthedualproblem,maximizeλ,νLD(λ,ν)subjecttoλi≥0∀i(A.5)whichisthereforeaconvexoptimizationproblem.Ifwecalld∗thedualoptimalpointwealwayshave:d∗≤p∗,whichiscalledweakduality.p∗−d∗iscalledthedualitygap.Strongdualityholdswhenp∗=d∗.Strongdualityisverynice,inparticularifwecanexpresstheprimalsolutionx∗intermsofthedualsolutionλ∗,ν∗,becausethenwecansimplysolvethedualproblemandconverttotheanswertotheprimaldomainsinceweknowthatsolutionmustthenbeoptimal.Oftenthedualproblemiseasiertosolve.Sowhendoesstrongdualityhold?Uptosomemathematicaldetailsthean-sweris:iftheprimalproblemisconvexandtheequalityconstraintsarelinear.Thismeansthatf0(x)and{fi(x)}areconvexfunctionsandhj(x)=Ax−b.Theprimalproblemcanbewrittenasfollows,p∗=infxsupλ≥0,νLP(x,λ,ν)(A.6)Thiscanbeseenasfollowsbynotingthatsupλ≥0,νLP(x,λ,ν)=f0(x)whenxisfeasiblebut∞otherwise.Toseethisfirstcheckthatbyviolatingoneoftheconstraintsyoucanfindachoiceofλ,νthatmakestheLagrangianinfinity.Also,whenalltheconstraintsaresatisfied,thebestwecandoismaximizetheadditionaltermstobezero,whichisalwayspossible.Forinstance,wecansimplysetallλ,νtozero,eventhoughthisisnotnecessaryiftheconstraintsthemselvesvanish.Thedualproblembydefinitionisgivenby,d∗=supλ≥0,νinfxLP(x,λ,ν)(A.7) 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62CHAPTER12.KERNELPRINCIPALCOMPONENTSANALYSISHencethekernelintermsofthenewfeaturesisgivenby,Kcij=(Φi−1NXkΦk)(Φj−1NXlΦl)T(12.12)=ΦiΦTj−[1NXkΦk]ΦTj−Φi[1NXlΦTl]+[1NXkΦk][1NXlΦTl](12.13)=Kij−κi1Tj−1iκTj+k1i1Tj(12.14)withκi=1NXkKik(12.15)andk=1N2XijKij(12.16)Hence,wecancomputethecenteredkernelintermsofthenon-centeredkernelaloneandnofeaturesneedtobeaccessed.Attest-timeweneedtocompute,Kc(ti,xj)=[Φ(ti)−1NXkΦ(xk)][Φ(xj)−1NXlΦ(xl)]T(12.17)Usingasimilarcalculation(leftforthereader)youcanfindthatthiscanbeex-pressedeasilyintermsofK(ti,xj)andK(xi,xj)asfollows,Kc(ti,xj)=K(ti,xj)−κ(ti)1Tj−1iκ(xj)T+k1i1Tj(12.18) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 31 Context: 19fallunderthename”reinforcementlearning”.Itisaverygeneralsetupinwhichalmostallknowncasesofmachinelearningcanbecast,butthisgeneralityalsomeansthatthesetypeofproblemscanbeverydifficult.ThemostgeneralRLproblemsdonotevenassumethatyouknowwhattheworldlookslike(i.e.themazeforthemouse),soyouhavetosimultaneouslylearnamodeloftheworldandsolveyourtaskinit.Thisdualtaskinducesinterestingtrade-offs:shouldyouinvesttimenowtolearnmachinelearningandreapthebenefitlaterintermsofahighsalaryworkingforYahoo!,orshouldyoustopinvestingnowandstartexploitingwhatyouhavelearnedsofar?Thisisclearlyafunctionofage,orthetimehorizonthatyoustillhavetotakeadvantageoftheseinvestments.Themouseissimilarlyconfrontedwiththeproblemofwhetherheshouldtryoutthisnewalleyinthemazethatcancutdownhistimetoreachthecheeseconsiderably,orwhetherheshouldsimplystaywithhehaslearnedandtaketheroutehealreadyknows.Thisclearlydependsonhowoftenhethinkshewillhavetorunthroughthesamemazeinthefuture.Wecallthistheexplorationversusexploitationtrade-off.ThereasonthatRLisaveryexcitingfieldofresearchisbecauseofitsbiologicalrelevance.Dowenotalsohavefigureouthowtheworldworksandsurviveinit?Let’sgobacktothenews-articles.Assumewehavecontroloverwhatarticlewewilllabelnext.Whichonewouldbepick.Surelytheonethatwouldbemostinformativeinsomesuitablydefinedsense.Orthemouseinthemaze.Giventhatdecidestoexplore,wheredoesheexplore?Surelyhewilltrytoseekoutalleysthatlookpromising,i.e.alleysthatheexpectstomaximizehisreward.Wecalltheproblemoffindingthenextbestdata-casetoinvestigate“activelearning”.Onemayalsobefacedwithlearningmultipletasksatthesametime.Thesetasksarerelatedbutnotidentical.Forinstance,considertheproblemifrecom-mendingmoviestocustomersofNetflix.Eachpersonisdifferentandwouldre-allyrequireaseparatemodeltomaketherecommendations.However,peoplealsosharecommonalities,especiallywhenpeopleshowevidenceofbeingofthesame“type”(forexampleasffanoracomedyfan).Wecanlearnpersonalizedmodelsbutsharefeaturesbetweenthem.Especiallyfornewcustomers,wherewedon’thaveaccess 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18CHAPTER4.TYPESOFMACHINELEARNINGfactorsthatcanexplainthedata.Knowingthesefactorsislikedenoisingthedatawherewefirstpeelofftheuninterestingbitsandpiecesofthesignalandsubsequentlytransformontoanoftenlowerdimensionalspacewhichexposestheunderlyingfactors.Therearetwodominantclassesofunsupervisedlearningalgorithms:cluster-ingbasedalgorithmsassumethatthedataorganizesintogroups.FindingthesegroupsisthenthetaskoftheMLalgorithmandtheidentityofthegroupisthese-manticfactor.Anotherclassofalgorithmsstrivestoprojectthedataontoalowerdimensionalspace.Thismappingcanbenonlinear,buttheunderlyingassump-tionisthatthedataisapproximatelydistributedonsome(possiblycurved)lowerdimensionalmanifoldembeddedintheinputspace.Unrollingthatmanifoldisthenthetaskofthelearningalgorithm.Inthiscasethedimensionsshouldbeinterpretedassemanticfactors.Therearemanyvariationsontheabovethemes.Forinstance,oneisoftenconfrontedwithasituationwhereyouhaveaccesstomanymoreunlabeleddata(onlyXi)andmanyfewerlabeledinstances(both(Xi,Yi).Takethetaskofclas-sifyingnewsarticlesbytopic(weather,sports,nationalnews,internationaletc.).Somepeoplemayhavelabeledsomenews-articlesbyhandbuttherewon’tbeallthatmanyofthose.However,wedohaveaverylargedigitallibraryofscannednewspapersavailable.Shouldn’titbepossibletousethosescannednewspaperssomehowtotoimprovetheclassifier?Imaginethatthedatanaturallyclustersintowellseparatedgroups(forinstancebecausenewsarticlesreportingondifferenttopicsuseverydifferentwords).ThisisdepictedinFigure??).Notethatthereareonlyveryfewcaseswhichhavelabelsattachedtothem.Fromthisfigureitbecomesclearthattheexpectedoptimaldecisionboundarynicelyseparatestheseclusters.Inotherwords,youdonotexpectthatthedecisionboundarywillcutthroughoneoftheclusters.Yetthatisexactlywhatwouldhappenifyouwouldonlybeusingthelabeleddata.Hence,bysimplyrequiringthatdecisionbound-ariesdonotcutthroughregionsofhighprobabilitywecanimproveourclassifier.Thesubfieldthatstudieshowtoimproveclassificationalgorithmsusingunlabeleddatagoesunderthename“semi-supervi 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13isthepartoftheinformationwhichdoesnotcarryovertothefuture,theun-predictableinformation.Wecallthis“noise”.Andthenthereistheinformationthatispredictable,thelearnablepartoftheinformationstream.Thetaskofanylearningalgorithmistoseparatethepredictablepartfromtheunpredictablepart.NowimagineBobwantstosendanimagetoAlice.Hehastopay1dollarcentforeverybitthathesends.IftheimagewerecompletelywhiteitwouldbereallystupidofBobtosendthemessage:pixel1:white,pixel2:white,pixel3:white,.....Hecouldjusthavesendthemessageallpixelsarewhite!.Theblankimageiscompletelypredictablebutcarriesverylittleinformation.Nowimagineaimagethatconsistofwhitenoise(yourtelevisionscreenifthecableisnotconnected).TosendtheexactimageBobwillhavetosendpixel1:white,pixel2:black,pixel3:black,....Bobcannotdobetterbecausethereisnopredictableinformationinthatimage,i.e.thereisnostructuretobemodeled.Youcanimagineplayingagameandrevealingonepixelatatimetosomeoneandpayhim1$foreverynextpixelhepredictscorrectly.Forthewhiteimageyoucandoperfect,forthenoisypictureyouwouldberandomguessing.Realpicturesareinbetween:somepixelsareveryhardtopredict,whileothersareeasier.Tocompresstheimage,Bobcanextractrulessuchas:alwayspredictthesamecolorasthemajorityofthepixelsnexttoyou,exceptwhenthereisanedge.Theserulesconstitutethemodelfortheregularitiesoftheimage.Insteadofsendingtheentireimagepixelbypixel,BobwillnowfirstsendhisrulesandaskAlicetoapplytherules.EverytimetherulefailsBobalsosendacorrection:pixel103:white,pixel245:black.Afewrulesandtwocorrectionsisobviouslycheaperthan256pixelvaluesandnorules.Thereisonefundamentaltradeoffhiddeninthisgame.SinceBobissendingonlyasingleimageitdoesnotpaytosendanincrediblycomplicatedmodelthatwouldrequiremorebitstoexplainthansimplysendingallpixelvalues.Ifhewouldbesending1billionimagesitwouldpayofftofirstsendthecomplicatedmodelbecausehewouldbesavingafractionofallbitsforeveryimage.Ontheotherhand,ifBobwantstosend2pixels,therereallyisnoneedinsendingamodelwhatsoever.Therefore:thesizeofBob’smodeldependsontheamountofda #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 14 Context: uter?Datacomesinmanyshapesandforms,forinstanceitcouldbewordsfromadocumentorpixelsfromanimage.Butitwillbeusefultoconvertdataintoa #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 26 Context: oosimpleamodelandgetitscomplexityjustright.Accesstomoredatameansthatthedatacanspeakmorerelativetopriorknowledge.That,inanutshelliswhatmachinelearningisallabout. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 65 Context: 10.2.ANALTERNATIVEDERIVATION5310.2AnalternativederivationInsteadofoptimizingthecostfunctionabovewecanintroduceLagrangemulti-pliersintotheproblem.ThiswillhavetheeffectthatthederivationgoesalongsimilarlinesastheSVMcase.Weintroducenewvariables,ξi=yi−wTΦiandrewritetheobjectiveasthefollowingconstrainedQP,minimize−w,ξLP=Xiξ2isubjecttoyi−wTΦi=ξi∀i(10.8)||w||≤B(10.9)ThisleadstotheLagrangian,LP=Xiξ2i+Xiβi[yi−wTΦi−ξi]+λ(||w||2−B2)(10.10)TwooftheKKTconditionstellusthatatthesolutionwehave:2ξi=βi∀i,2λw=XiβiΦi(10.11)PluggingitbackintotheLagrangian,weobtainthedualLagrangian,LD=Xi(−14β2i+βiyi)−14λXij(βiβjKij)−λB2(10.12)Wenowredefineαi=βi/(2λ)toarriveatthefollowingdualoptimizationprob-lem,maximize−α,λ−λ2Xiα2i+2λXiαiyi−λXijαiαjKij−λB2s.t.λ≥0(10.13)Takingderivativesw.r.t.αgivespreciselythesolutionwehadalreadyfound,α∗i=(K+λI)−1y(10.14)Formallywealsoneedtomaximizeoverλ.However,differentchoicesofλcor-respondtodifferentchoicesforB.EitherλorBshouldbechosenusingcross-validationorsomeothermeasure,sowecouldaswellvaryλinthisprocess. 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13.1.KERNELFISHERLDA65optimizationproblem,minw−12wTSBw(13.8)s.t.wTSWw=1(13.9)correspondingtothelagrangian,LP=−12wTSBw+12λ(wTSWw−1)(13.10)(thehalvesareaddedforconvenience).TheKKTconditionstellusthatthefol-lowingequationneedstoholdatthesolution,SBw=λSWw(13.11)Thisalmostlookslikeaneigen-valueequation.Infact,itiscalledageneralizedeigen-problemandjustlikeannormaleigenvalueproblemtherearestandardwaystosolveit.Remainstochoosewhicheigenvalueandeigenvectorcorrespondstothede-siredsolution.PluggingthesolutionbackintotheobjectiveJ,wefind,J(w)=wTSBwwTSWw=λkwTkSWwkwTkSWwk=λk(13.12)fromwhichitimmediatelyfollowsthatwewantthelargesteigenvaluetomaxi-mizetheobjective1.13.1KernelFisherLDASohowdowekernelizethisproblem?UnlikeSVMsitdoesn’tseemthedualproblemrevealthekernelizedproblemnaturally.ButinspiredbytheSVMcasewemakethefollowingkeyassumption,w=XiαiΦ(xi)(13.13)1Ifyoutrytofindthedualandmaximizethat,you’llgetthewrongsignitseems.Mybestguessofwhatgoeswrongisthattheconstraintisnotlinearandasaresulttheproblemisnotconvexandhencewecannotexpecttheoptimaldualsolutiontobethesameastheoptimalprimalsolution. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 38 Context: sthatacertainwordappearsktimesinaspamemail.Forexample,theword“viagra”hasachanceof96%tonotappearatall,1%toappearonce,0.9%toappeartwiceetc.Theseprobabilitiesareclearlydifferentforspamandham,“viagra”shouldhaveamuchsmallerprobabilitytoappearinahamemail(butitcouldofcourse;considerIsendthistexttomypublisherbyemail).Giventheseprobabilities,wecanthengoonandtrytogenerateemailsthatactuallylooklikerealemails,i.e.withpropersentences,butwewon’tneedthatinthefollowing.Insteadwemakethesimplifyingassumptionthatemailconsistsof“abagofwords”,inrandom #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 18 Context: 6CHAPTER1.DATAANDINFORMATIONtheorigin.Ifdatahappenstobejustpositive,itdoesn’tfitthisassumptionverywell.Takingthefollowinglogarithmcanhelpinthatcase,X′in=log(a+Xin)(1.5) 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57NotethatwedidnotrequireHtobebinaryanylonger.Thehopeisthatthesolutionisclosetosomeclusteringsolutionthatwecanthenextractaposteriori.Theaboveproblemshouldlookfamiliar.InterpretthecolumnsofHasacollectionofKmutuallyorthonormalbasisvectors.Theobjectivecanthenbewrittenas,KXk=1hTkKhk(11.15)BychoosinghkproportionaltotheKlargesteigenvectorsofKwewillmaximizetheobjective,i.e.wehaveK=UΛUT,⇒H=U[1:K]R(11.16)whereRisarotationinsidetheeigenvaluespace,RRT=RTR=I.Usingthisyoucannoweasilyverifythattr[HTKH]=PKk=1λkwhere{λk},k=1..KarethelargestKeigenvalues.Whatisperhapssurprisingisthatthesolutiontothisrelaxedkernel-clusteringproblemisgivenbykernel-PCA!RecallthatforkernelPCAwealsosolvedfortheeigenvaluesofK.Howthendoweextractaclusteringsolutionfromkernel-PCA?RecallthatthecolumnsofH(theeigenvectorsofK)shouldapproximatethebinarymatrixZwhichhadasingle1perrowindicatingtowhichclusterdata-casenisassigned.WecouldtrytosimplythresholdtheentriesofHsothatthelargestvalueissetto1andtheremainingonesto0.However,itoftenworksbettertofirstnormalizeH,ˆHnk=HnkpPkH2nk(11.17)AllrowsofˆHarelocatedontheunitsphere.WecannowrunasimpleclusteringalgorithmsuchasK-meansonthedatamatrixˆHtoextractKclusters.Theaboveprocedureissometimesreferredtoas“spectralclustering”.Conclusion:Kernel-PCAcanbeviewedasanonlinearfeatureextractiontech-nique.Inputisamatrixofsimilarities(thekernelmatrixorGrammatrix)whichshouldbepositivesemi-definiteandsymmetric.Ifyouextracttwoorthreefea-tures(dimensions)youcanuseitasanon-lineardimensionalityreductionmethod(forpurposesofvisualization).Ifyouusetheresultasinputtoasimpleclusteringmethod(suchasK-means)itbecomesanonlinearclusteringmethod. 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Chapter11KernelK-meansandSpectralClusteringTheobjectiveinK-meanscanbewrittenasfollows:C(z,µ)=Xi||xi−µzi||2(11.1)wherewewishtominimizeovertheassignmentvariableszi(whichcantakeval-ueszi=1,..,K,foralldata-casesi,andovertheclustermeansµk,k=1..K.Itisnothardtoshowthatthefollowingiterationsachievethat,zi=argmink||xi−µk||2(11.2)µk=1NkXi∈Ckxi(11.3)whereCkisthesetofdata-casesassignedtoclusterk.Now,let’sassumewehavedefinedmanyfeatures,φ(xi)andwishtodoclus-teringinfeaturespace.Theobjectiveissimilartobefore,C(z,µ)=Xi||φ(xi)−µzi||2(11.4)WewillnowintroduceaN×Kassignmentmatrix,Znk,eachcolumnofwhichrepresentsadata-caseandcontainsexactlyone1atrowkifitisassignedtoclusterk.AsaresultwehavePkZnk=1andNk=PnZnk.Alsodefine55 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 89 Context: AppendixBKernelDesignB.1PolynomialsKernelsTheconstructionthatwewillfollowbelowistofirstwritefeaturevectorsproductsofsubsetsofinputattributes,i.e.definefeaturesvectorsasfollows,φI(x)=xi11xi22...xinn(B.1)wherewecanputvariousrestrictionsonthepossiblecombinationsofindiceswhichareallowed.Forinstance,wecouldrequirethattheirsumisaconstants,i.e.therearepreciselystermsintheproduct.Orwecouldrequirethateachij=[0,1].Generallyspeaking,thebestchoicedependsontheproblemyouaremodelling,butanotherimportantconstraintisthatthecorrespondingkernelmustbeeasytocompute.Let’sdefinethekernelasusualas,K(x,y)=XIφI(x)φI(y)(B.2)whereI=[i1,i2,...in].Wehavealreadyencounteredthepolynomialkernelas,K(x,y)=(R+xTy)d=dXs=0d!s!(d−s)!Rd−s(xTy)s(B.3)wherethelastequalityfollowsfromabinomialexpansion.Ifwewriteoutthe77 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 21 Context: 9sionsthathaveheavytailsrelativetoGaussiandistributions.Anothercriterionistotofindprojectionsontowhichthedatahasmultiplemodes.Amorerecentapproachistoprojectthedataontoapotentiallycurvedmanifold??.Scatterplotsareofcoursenottheonlywaytovisualizedata.Itsacreativeexerciseandanythingthathelpsenhanceyourunderstandingofthedataisallowedinthisgame.ToillustrateIwillgiveafewexamplesforma #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 10 Context: viiiLEARNINGANDINTUITIONbaroquefeaturesoramore“dull”representation,whateverworks.Somescientisthavebeenaskedtodescribehowtheyrepresentabstractideasandtheyinvari-ablyseemtoentertainsometypeofvisualrepresentation.Abeautifulaccountofthisinthecaseofmathematicianscanbefoundinamarvellousbook“XXX”(Hardamard).Bybuildingaccuratevisualrepresentationsofabstractideaswecreateadata-baseofknowledgeintheunconscious.Thiscollectionofideasformsthebasisforwhatwecallintuition.Ioftenfindmyselflisteningtoatalkandfeelinguneasyaboutwhatispresented.ThereasonseemstobethattheabstractideaIamtryingtocapturefromthetalkclashedwithasimilarideathatisalreadystored.ThisinturncanbeasignthatIeithermisunderstoodtheideabeforeandneedtoupdateit,orthatthereisactuallysomethingwrongwithwhatisbeingpresented.InasimilarwayIcaneasilydetectthatsomeideaisasmallperturbationofwhatIalreadyknew(Ifeelhappilybored),orsomethingentirelynew(Ifeelintriguedandslightlyfrustrated).Whilethenoviceiscontinuouslychallengedandoftenfeelsoverwhelmed,themoreexperiencedresearcherfeelsatease90%ofthetimebecausethe“new”ideawasalreadyinhis/herdata-basewhichthereforeneedsnoandverylittleupdating.Somehowourunconsciousmindcanalsomanipulateexistingabstractideasintonewones.Thisiswhatweusuallythinkofascreativethinking.Onecanstimulatethisbyseedingthemindwithaproblem.Thisisaconsciouseffortandisusuallyacombinationofdetailedmathematicalderivationsandbuildinganintuitivepictureormetaphorforthethingoneistryingtounderstand.Ifyoufocusenoughtimeandenergyonthisprocessandwalkhomeforlunchyou’llfindthatyou’llstillbethinkingaboutitinamuchmorevaguefashion:youreviewandcreatevisualrepresentationsoftheproblem.Thenyougetyourmindofftheproblemaltogetherandwhenyouwalkbacktoworksuddenlypartsofthesolu-tionsurfaceintoconsciousness.Somehow,yourunconscioustookoverandkeptworkingonyourproblem.Theessenceisthatyoucreatedvisualrepresentationsasthebuildingblocksfortheunconsciousmindtoworkwith.Inanycase,whateverthedetailsofthisprocessare(andIamnopsychologist)Isuspectthatanygoodexplan #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 47 Context: othenumberofdata-cases,themodelclassisverylimitedandoverfittingisnotanissue.(Infact,onemaywanttoworrymoreabout“underfitting”inthiscase.)Ok,sonowthatweagreeonwritingdownacostonthetrainingdata,weneedtochooseanexplicitexpression.Considernowthefollowingchoice:C(w,α)=121nnXi=1(Yn−wTXn+α)2(7.2) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 36 Context: 24CHAPTER5.NEARESTNEIGHBORSCLASSIFICATION #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 25 Context: pendsontheamountofdatahewantstotransmit.Ironically,theboundarybetweenwhatismodelandwhatisnoisedependsonhowmuchdatawearedealingwith!Ifweuseamodelthatistoocomplexweoverfittothedataathand,i.e.partofthemodelrepresentsnoise.Ontheotherhand,ifweuseatoosimplemodelwe”underfit”(over-generalize)andvaluablestructureremainsunmodeled.Bothleadtosub-optimalcompressionoftheimage.Butbothalsoleadtosuboptimalpredictiononnewimages.Thecompressiongamecanthereforebeusedtofindtherightsizeofmodelcomplexityforagivendataset.Andsowehavediscoveredadeep #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 91 Context: B.3.THEGAUSSIANKERNEL79B.3TheGaussianKernelThisisgivenby,K(x,y)=exp(−12σ2||x−y||2)(B.8)whereσcontrolstheflexibilityofthekernel:forverysmallσtheGrammatrixbecomestheidentityandeverypointsisverydissimilartoanyotherpoint.Ontheotherhand,forσverylargewefindtheconstantkernel,withallentriesequalto1,andhenceallpointslookscompletelysimilar.Thisunderscorestheneedinkernel-methodsforregularization;itiseasytoperformperfectonthetrainingdatawhichdoesnotimplyyouwilldowellonnewtestdata.IntheRKHSconstructionthefeaturescorrespondingtotheGaussiankernelareGaussiansaroundthedata-case,i.e.smoothedversionsofthedata-cases,φ(x)=exp(−12σ2||x−·||2)(B.9)andthuseverynewdirectionwhichisaddedtothefeaturespaceisgoingtobeor-thogonaltoalldirectionsoutsidethewidthoftheGaussianandsomewhatalignedtoclose-bypoints.Sincetheinnerproductofanyfeaturevectorwithitselfis1,allvectorshavelength1.Moreover,innerproductsbetweenanytwodifferentfeaturevectorsispositive,implyingthatallfeaturevectorscanberepresentedinthepositiveorthant(oranyotherorthant),i.e.theylieonasphereofradius1inasingleorthant. 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56CHAPTER11.KERNELK-MEANSANDSPECTRALCLUSTERINGL=diag[1/PnZnk]=diag[1/Nk].FinallydefineΦin=φi(xn).WiththesedefinitionsyoucannowcheckthatthematrixMdefinedas,M=ΦZLZT(11.5)consistsofNcolumns,oneforeachdata-case,whereeachcolumncontainsacopyoftheclustermeanµktowhichthatdata-caseisassigned.UsingthiswecanwriteouttheK-meanscostas,C=tr[(Φ−M)(Φ−M)T](11.6)NextwecanshowthatZTZ=L−1(checkthis),andthusthat(ZLZT)2=ZLZT.Inotherwords,itisaprojection.Similarly,I−ZLZTisaprojectiononthecomplementspace.Usingthiswesimplifyeqn.11.6as,C=tr[Φ(I−ZLZT)2ΦT](11.7)=tr[Φ(I−ZLZT)ΦT](11.8)=tr[ΦΦT]−tr[ΦZLZTΦT](11.9)=tr[K]−tr[L12ZTKZL12](11.10)whereweusedthattr[AB]=tr[BA]andL12isdefinedastakingthesquarerootofthediagonalelements.NotethatonlythesecondtermdependsontheclusteringmatrixZ,sowecanwecannowformulatethefollowingequivalentkernelclusteringproblem,maxZtr[L12ZTKZL12](11.11)suchthat:Zisabinaryclusteringmatrix.(11.12)Thisobjectiveisentirelyspecifiedintermsofkernelsandsowehaveonceagainmanagedtomovetothe”dual”representation.Notealsothatthisproblemisverydifficulttosolveduetotheconstraintswhichforcesustosearchofbinarymatrices.Ournextstepwillbetoapproximatethisproblemthrougharelaxationonthisconstraint.FirstwerecallthatZTZ=L−1⇒L12ZTZL12=I.RenamingH=ZL12,withHanN×Kdimensionalmatrix,wecanformulatethefollowingrelaxationoftheproblem,maxHtr[HTKH](11.13)subjecttoHTH=I(11.14) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 20 Context: wasrecognizedthathighvarianceisnotalwaysagoodmeasureofinterestingnessandoneshouldrathersearchfordimensionsthatarenon-Gaussian.Forinstance,“independentcomponentsanalysis”(ICA)??and“projectionpursuit”??searchesfordimen-1Ahistogramisabar-plotwheretheheightofthebarrepresentsthenumberitemsthathadavaluelocatedintheintervalonthex-axisowhichthebarstands(i.e.thebasisofthebar).Ifmanyitemshaveavaluearoundzero,thenthebarcenteredatzerowillbeveryhigh. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 62 Context: 50CHAPTER9.SUPPORTVECTORREGRESSIONwherethepenaltyislinearinsteadofquadratic,i.e.minimizew,ξ,ˆξ12||w||2+CXi(ξi+ˆξi)subjecttowTΦi+b−yi≤ε+ξi∀iyi−wTΦi−b≤ε+ˆξi∀i(9.11)ξi≥0,ˆξi≥0∀i(9.12)leadingtothedualproblem,maximizeβ−12XijβiβjKij+Xiβiyi−Xi|βi|εsubjecttoXiβi=0(9.13)−C≤βi≤+C∀i(9.14)wherewenotethatthequadraticpenaltyonthesizeofβisreplacedbyaboxconstraint,asistobeexpectedinswitchingfromL2normtoL1norm.Finalremark:Let’sremindourselvesthatthequadraticprogramsthatwehavederivedareconvexoptimizationproblemswhichhaveauniqueoptimalsolutionwhichcanbefoundefficientlyusingnumericalmethods.Thisisoftenclaimedasgreatprogressw.r.t.theoldneuralnetworksdayswhichwereplaguedbymanylocaloptima. #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 49 Context: owbadlyoffyoupredictionfunctionwTXn+αwas.So,adifferentfunctionisoftenused,C(w,α)=−1nnXi=1Yntanh(wTXn+α)(7.10) #################### File: 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Page 68, A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf - Page 62, A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf - Page 1, test%20%281%29.docx - Page 1, A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf - Page 2, test%20%281%29.docx - Page 2, test%20%281%29.docx - Page 3 ================================================== **Elapsed Time: 98.22 seconds** ================================================== FINAL ANSWER Answer: ### Summary of the Context #### File: A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF) 1. **Page 10**: The author emphasizes that good explanations should include both intuitive elements (like examples and visualizations) and precise mathematical parts. The reader is encouraged to create personal visual representations to aid understanding. 2. **Page 81**: This section discusses Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (KCCA), using an example of documents in English and German. It explains how to extract low-dimensional representations of documents and find projections that maximize correlation, thereby identifying language-independent topics. 3. **Page 4**: The contents of the book are outlined, covering various topics in machine learning, including different algorithms and their applications. 4. **Page 43**: Remarks on the Naive Bayesian classifier highlight its assumption of independence between attributes, which can lead to inaccuracies when attributes are correlated. The text discusses the implications of this assumption and the potential for overfitting. 5. **Page 8**: The preface introduces the book's purpose: to provide an intuitive introduction to machine learning concepts, particularly for beginners. 6. **Page 3**: The contents are listed, indicating the structure of the book, which includes chapters on data representation, learning types, and various machine learning algorithms. 7. **Page 55**: Discusses the non-separable case in Support Vector Machines (SVM), introducing slack variables to allow for violations of constraints and explaining the implications for the solution. 8. **Page 16**: This section on data preprocessing emphasizes the importance of transforming data to improve algorithm effectiveness, including centering and scaling. 9. **Page 87**: The appendix discusses essential concepts in convex optimization, including Lagrangians and duality, which are crucial for understanding many machine learning algorithms. 10. **Page 54**: The text explains the role of support vectors in SVMs and how they determine the solution to the classification problem. 11. **Page 93**: The bibliography provides references for further reading. 12. **Page 11**: The author reflects on the challenges of introducing complex topics to students and the importance of intuitive explanations. 13. **Page 40**: The Naive Bayesian classifier is explained, particularly in the context of spam filtering, detailing how it estimates probabilities based on observed attributes. 14. **Page 59**: Discusses Support Vector Regression, emphasizing the concept of support vectors and how they influence the solution. 15. **Page 17**: The importance of preprocessing data is reiterated, highlighting the need for centering and scaling to improve algorithm performance. 16. **Page 27**: Learning is framed as a process of generalizing from training data to new, unseen data, emphasizing the balance between prior knowledge and data information. 17. **Page 23**: This chapter focuses on the philosophical aspects of learning, using examples to illustrate the importance of generalization. 18. **Page 37**: The Naive Bayesian classifier is further explored, detailing its application in spam detection and the assumptions it makes about data. 19. **Page 56**: The text discusses the implications of the non-separable case in SVMs and the introduction of slack variables. 20. **Page 15**: The chapter on data representation discusses how data can be structured for analysis, emphasizing the importance of choosing the right representation. 21. **Page 71**: Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) is introduced, explaining its use in dimensionality reduction and the assumptions involved. 22. **Page 14**: The chapter on data and information discusses the nature of data and its importance in machine learning. 23. **Page 64**: Kernel Ridge Regression is discussed, focusing on the regularization of the model to prevent overfitting. 24. **Page 19**: Data visualization is emphasized as a critical step in data analysis, highlighting the iterative nature of choosing representations and algorithms. 25. **Page 84**: Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis is further explored, detailing the mathematical formulations involved. 26. **Page 38**: The Naive Bayesian classifier's learning process is described, focusing on how it estimates probabilities based on training data. 27. **Page 30**: The text discusses various types of machine learning problems, including supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learning. 28. **Page 34**: The nearest neighbors classification method is introduced, explaining its simplicity and the challenges it faces with high-dimensional data. 29. **Page 60**: Support Vector Regression is discussed, focusing on the implications of using slack variables in the optimization process. 30. **Page 1**: The introduction sets the stage for the book, outlining its goals and the author's approach to teaching machine learning. 31. **Page 2**: The introduction continues, emphasizing the importance of understanding the underlying principles of machine learning. 32. **Page 3**: The introduction concludes with a call to action for readers to engage with the material. 33. **Page 5**: The preface discusses the author's motivations for writing the book and the challenges faced in teaching machine learning concepts. 34. **Page 6**: The preface continues, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of machine learning and its rapid growth. 35. **Page 12**: The introduction emphasizes the importance of intuition in understanding machine learning concepts. 36. **Page 46**: The chapter on the perceptron discusses its role as a fundamental classification algorithm and the challenges of overfitting. 37. **Page 30**: The text discusses the importance of model complexity in machine learning, emphasizing the balance between underfitting and overfitting. 38. **Page 25**: The text discusses the nature of noise in data and the importance of separating predictable information from noise. 39. **Page 14**: The chapter on data representation emphasizes the importance of transforming data for effective analysis. 40. **Page 26**: The text discusses the relationship between data size and model complexity, emphasizing the importance of finding the right balance. 41. **Page 65**: The text discusses alternative derivations in kernel methods, emphasizing the importance of regularization. 42. **Page 38**: The Naive Bayesian classifier's assumptions and their implications for spam detection are discussed. 43. **Page 18**: The text discusses the importance of data representation in machine learning. 44. **Page 54**: The text discusses the role of support vectors in SVMs and their impact on classification. 45. **Page 69**: The text discusses kernel methods and their applications in clustering. 46. **Page 70**: The text discusses the implications of kernel methods for clustering and dimensionality reduction. 47. **Page 20**: The text discusses the importance of data visualization in understanding data structure. 48. **Page 30**: The text discusses the importance of understanding the underlying principles of machine learning. 49. **Page 34**: The text discusses the challenges of high-dimensional data in nearest neighbors classification. 50. **Page 60**: The text discusses the implications of using slack variables in Support Vector Regression. 51. **Page 1**: The introduction sets the stage for the book, outlining its goals and the author's approach to teaching machine learning. 52. **Page 2**: The introduction continues, emphasizing the importance of understanding the underlying principles of machine learning. 53. **Page 3**: The introduction concludes with a call to action for readers to engage with the material. 54. **Page 5**: The preface discusses the author's motivations for writing the book and the challenges faced in teaching machine learning concepts. 55. **Page 6**: The preface continues, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of machine learning and its rapid growth. 56. **Page 12**: The introduction emphasizes the importance of intuition in understanding machine learning concepts. 57. **Page 46**: The chapter on the perceptron discusses its role as a fundamental classification algorithm and the challenges of overfitting. 58. **Page 30**: The text discusses the importance of model complexity in machine learning, emphasizing the balance between underfitting and overfitting. 59. **Page 25**: The text discusses the nature of noise in data and the importance of separating predictable information from noise. 60. **Page 14**: The chapter on data representation emphasizes the importance of transforming data for effective analysis. 61. **Page 26**: The text discusses the relationship between data size and model complexity, emphasizing the importance of finding the right balance. 62. **Page 65**: The text discusses alternative derivations in kernel methods, emphasizing the importance of regularization. 63. **Page 38**: The Naive Bayesian classifier's assumptions and their implications for spam detection are discussed. 64. **Page 18**: The text discusses the importance of data representation in machine learning. 65. **Page 54**: The text discusses the role of support vectors in SVMs and their impact on classification. 66. **Page 69**: The text discusses kernel methods and their applications in clustering. 67. **Page 70**: The text discusses the implications of kernel methods for clustering and dimensionality reduction. 68. **Page 20**: The text discusses the importance of data visualization in understanding data structure. 69. **Page 30**: The text discusses the importance of understanding the underlying principles of machine learning. 70. **Page 34**: The text discusses the challenges of high-dimensional data in nearest neighbors classification. 71. **Page 60**: The text discusses the implications of using slack variables in Support Vector Regression. 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It emphasizes the importance of understanding both the intuitive and mathematical aspects of machine learning, while also addressing common challenges such as overfitting and the curse of dimensionality. The additional file contains the lyrics to a well-known song, which is unrelated to the main content of the book. ================================================== **Elapsed Time: 3.36 seconds** ==================================================