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In this knowledge base are following Documents A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF) (1).pdf, test (1).docx, Untitled document.docx, my password is.txt, my password is(1).txt This is the initial message to start the chat. Based on the following summary/context you should formulate an initial message greeting the user with the following user name [Gender] [Vorname] [Surname] tell them that you are the AI Chatbot Simon using the Large Language Model [Used Model] to answer all questions. Formulate the initial message in the Usersettings Language German Please use the following context to suggest some questions or topics to chat about this knowledge base. List at least 3-10 possible topics or suggestions up and use emojis. The chat should be professional and in business terms. At the end ask an open question what the user would like to check on the list. Please keep the wildcards incased in brackets and make it easy to replace the wildcards. The provided context consists of several files, each containing information related to machine learning. **File: Untitled document.docx** This file contains only the text "Page 1" repeated three times. It does not provide any meaningful information. **File: A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF) (1).pdf** This file is a book chapter on machine learning. It covers various topics, including: * **Data and Information:** The chapter discusses the importance of data structure and how it relates to tasks like prediction, interpretation, and compression. It also covers data representation and preprocessing techniques. * **Learning:** The chapter delves into the core concept of learning, emphasizing the importance of generalization and avoiding overfitting. 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It explains how to train a perceptron using gradient descent and discusses the concept of overfitting. * **Support Vector Machines:** The chapter introduces Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a powerful method for classification that aims to maximize the margin between classes. It covers both the linearly separable and non-separable cases, explaining the concept of support vectors and how to kernelize SVMs. * **Support Vector Regression:** The chapter explains Support Vector Regression (SVR), a sparse regression method that uses the concept of an epsilon-tube to penalize data points outside a certain margin. * **Kernel Ridge Regression:** The chapter introduces Kernel Ridge Regression, a kernelized version of ridge regression that aims to find a linear function in feature space to model dependencies between covariates and response variables. * **Kernel K-means and Spectral Clustering:** The chapter discusses Kernel K-means, a kernelized version of the K-means clustering algorithm. It also introduces spectral clustering, a method that uses kernel PCA to extract a clustering solution. * **Kernel Principal Components Analysis:** The chapter explains Kernel Principal Components Analysis (KPCA), a non-linear dimensionality reduction technique that projects data onto a lower-dimensional subspace of largest variance. * **Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis:** The chapter introduces Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), a supervised dimensionality reduction technique that aims to find projections that maximize the separation between classes. It covers both the standard LDA and its kernelized version. * **Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis:** The chapter explains Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), a method for finding projections of two sets of data that are maximally correlated. * **Essentials of Convex Optimization:** The chapter provides a brief overview of convex optimization, including the concepts of Lagrangians, duality, and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. * **Kernel Design:** The chapter discusses different kernel functions, including polynomial kernels, all subsets kernels, and the Gaussian kernel. **File: test (1).docx** This file contains the lyrics of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. **File: my password is (1).txt** This file contains a password, which is redacted in the context. In summary, the context provides a comprehensive introduction to machine learning, covering various algorithms, concepts, and techniques. It also includes a popular song and a redacted password. 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You can access knowledge bases provided in the user's "CONTEXT" and should expertly interpret this information to deliver the most relevant responses. In the "CONTEXT", prioritize information from the text tagged "FEEDBACK:". Your role is to act as an expert at reading the information provided by the user and giving the most relevant information. Prioritize clarity, trustworthiness, and appropriate formality when communicating with enterprise users. If a topic is outside your knowledge scope, admit it honestly and suggest alternative ways to obtain the information. Utilize chat history effectively to avoid redundancy and enhance relevance, continuously integrating necessary details. Focus on providing precise and accurate information in your answers. **Elapsed Time: 0.19 seconds** FINAL QUERY Final Query: CONTEXT: ########## File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 13 Context: 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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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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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 #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 6 Context: sintheﬁeldofmachinetranslation,notbecauseanewmodelwasinventedbutbecausemanymoretranslateddocumentsbecameavailable.Theﬁeldofmachinelearningismultifacetedandexpandingfast.Tosampleafewsub-disciplines:statisticallearning,kernelmethods,graphicalmodels,ar-tiﬁcialneuralnetworks,fuzzylogic,Bayesianmethodsandsoon.Theﬁeldalsocoversmanytypesoflearningproblems,suchassupervisedlearning,unsuper-visedlearning,semi-supervisedlearning,activelearning,reinforcementlearningetc.Iwillonlycoverthemostbasicapproachesinthisbookfromahighlyper- #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 5 Context: PrefaceInwinterquarter2007ItaughtanundergraduatecourseinmachinelearningatUCIrvine.WhileIhadbeenteachingmachinelearningatagraduatelevelitbecamesoonclearthatteachingthesamematerialtoanundergraduateclasswasawholenewchallenge.Muchofmachinelearningisbuilduponconceptsfrommathematicssuchaspartialderivatives,eigenvaluedecompositions,multivariateprobabilitydensitiesandsoon.Iquicklyfoundthattheseconceptscouldnotbetakenforgrantedatanundergraduatelevel.Thesituationwasaggravatedbythelackofasuitabletextbook.Excellenttextbooksdoexistforthisﬁeld,butIfoundallofthemtobetootechnicalforaﬁrstencounterwithmachinelearning.Thisexperienceledmetobelievetherewasagenuineneedforasimple,intuitiveintroductionintotheconceptsofmachinelearning.Aﬁrstreadtowettheappetitesotospeak,apreludetothemoretechnicalandadvancedtextbooks.Hence,thebookyouseebeforeyouismeantforthosestartingoutintheﬁeldwhoneedasimple,intuitiveexplanationofsomeofthemostusefulalgorithmsthatourﬁeldhastooffer.Machinelearningisarelativelyrecentdisciplinethatemergedfromthegen-eralﬁeldofartiﬁcialintelligenceonlyquiterecently.Tobuildintelligentmachinesresearchersrealizedthatthesemachinesshouldlearnfromandadapttotheiren-vironment.Itissimplytoocostlyandimpracticaltodesignintelligentsystemsbyﬁrstgatheringalltheexpertknowledgeourselvesandthenhard-wiringitintoamachine.Forinstance,aftermanyyearsofintenseresearchthewecannowrecog-nizefacesinimagestoahighdegreeaccuracy.Buttheworldhasapproximately30,000visualobjectcategoriesaccordingtosomeestimates(Biederman).Shouldweinvestthesameefforttobuildgoodclassiﬁersformonkeys,chairs,pencils,axesetc.orshouldwebuildsystemstocanobservemillionsoftrainingimages,somewithlabels(e.g.inthesepixelsintheimagecorrespondtoacar)butmostofthemwithoutsideinformation?Althoughthereiscurrentlynosystemwhichcanrecognizeevenintheorderof1000objectcategories(thebestsystemcangetiii 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Chapter7ThePerceptronWewillnowdescribeonethesimplestparametricclassiﬁers:theperceptronanditscousinthelogisticregressionclassiﬁer.However,despiteitssimplicityitshouldnotbeunder-estimated!Itistheworkhorseformostcompaniesin-volvedwithsomeformofmachinelearning(perhapstyingwiththedecisiontreeclassiﬁer).Onecouldsaythatitrepresentsthecanonicalparametricapproachtoclassiﬁcationwherewebelievethatastraightlineissufﬁcienttoseparatethetwoclassesofinterest.AnexampleofthisisgiveninFigure??wheretheassumptionthatthetwoclassescanbeseparatedbyalineisclearlyvalid.However,thisassumptionneednotalwaysbetrue.LookingatFigure??weclearlyobservethatthereisnostraightlinethatwilldothejobforus.Whatcanwedo?Ourﬁrstinclinationisprobablytotryandﬁtamorecomplicatedsepa-rationboundary.However,thereisanothertrickthatweillbeusingofteninthisbook.Insteadwecanincreasethedimensionalityofthespaceby“measuring”morethingsofthedata.Callφk(X)featurekthatwasmeasuredfromthedata.Thefeaturescanbehighlynonlinearfunctions.Thesimplestchoicemaybetoalsomeasureφi(X)=X2i,∀kforeachattributeXk.Butwemayalsomeasurecross-productssuchasφij(X)=XiXj,∀i,j.Thelatterwillallowyoutoex-plicitlymodelcorrelationsbetweenattributes.Forexample,ifXirepresentsthepresence(1)orabsence(0)oftheword“viagra”andsimilarlyforXjandthepres-ence/absenceoftheword“dysfunction”,thenthecrossproductfeatureXiXjlet’syoumodelthepresenceofbothwordssimultaneously(whichshouldbehelpfulintryingtoﬁndoutwhatthisdocumentisabout).Wecanaddasmanyfeaturesaswelike,addinganotherdimensionforeverynewfeature.Inthishigherdimensionalspacewecannowbemoreconﬁdentinassumingthatthedatacanbeseparatedbyaline.33 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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 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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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22CHAPTER5.NEARESTNEIGHBORSCLASSIFICATIONﬁgureoutthelabelofatest-casewesimplylookaroundandseewhatlabelsourneighborshave.Askingyourclosestneighborislikebettingallyourmoneyonasinglepieceofadviceandyoumightgetreallyunluckyifyourclosestneighborhappenstobeanodd-one-out.It’stypicallybettertoaskseveralopinionsbeforemakingyourdecision.However,ifyouasktoomucharoundyouwillbeforcedtoaskadvicefromdata-casesthatarenolongerverysimilartoyou.Sothereissomeoptimalnumberofneighborstoask,whichmaybedifferentforeveryproblem.Determiningthisoptimalnumberofneighborsisnoteasy,butwecanagainusecrossvalidation(section??)toestimateit.SowhatisgoodandbadaboutkNN?First,it’ssimplicitymakesitattractive.Veryfewassumptionsaboutthedataareusedintheclassiﬁcationprocess.Thispropertycanalsobeadisadvantage:ifyouhavepriorknowledgeabouthowthedatawasgenerated,itsbettertouseit,becauselessinformationhastobeex-tractedfromthedata.Asecondconsiderationiscomputationtimeandmemoryefﬁciency.Assumeyouhaveaverylargedataset,butyouneedtomakedecisionsveryquickly.Asanexample,considersurﬁngtheweb-pagesofAmazone.com.Wheneveryousearchforabook,itlikestosuggest10others.Todothatitcouldclassifybooksintocategoriesandsuggestthetoprankedinthatcategory.kNNre-quiresAmazonetostoreallfeaturesofallbooksatalocationthatisaccessibleforfastcomputation.Moreover,toclassifykNNhastodotheneighborhoodsearcheverytimeagain.Clearly,therearetricksthatcanbeplayedwithsmartindexing,butwouldn’titbemucheasierifwewouldhavesummarizedallbooksbyasim-pleclassiﬁcationfunctionfθ(X),that“spitsout”aclassforanycombinationoffeaturesX?Thisdistinctionbetweenalgorithms/modelsthatrequirememorizingeverydata-itemdataisoftencalled“parametric”versus“non-parametric”.It’simpor-tanttorealizethatthisissomewhatofamisnomer:non-parametricmodelscanhaveparameters(suchasthenumberofneighborstoconsider).Thekeydistinc-tionisratherwetherthedataissummarizedthroughasetofparameterswhichtogethercompriseaclassiﬁcationfunctionfθ(X),orwhetherweretainallthedatatodotheclassiﬁcation“ontheﬂy”.K 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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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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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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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Chapter13FisherLinearDiscriminantAnalysisThemostfamousexampleofdimensionalityreductionis”principalcomponentsanalysis”.Thistechniquesearchesfordirectionsinthedatathathavelargestvari-anceandsubsequentlyprojectthedataontoit.Inthisway,weobtainalowerdimensionalrepresentationofthedata,thatremovessomeofthe”noisy”direc-tions.Therearemanydifﬁcultissueswithhowmanydirectionsoneneedstochoose,butthatisbeyondthescopeofthisnote.PCAisanunsupervisedtechniqueandassuchdoesnotincludelabelinforma-tionofthedata.Forinstance,ifweimagine2cigarlikeclustersin2dimensions,onecigarhasy=1andtheothery=−1.Thecigarsarepositionedinparallelandverycloselytogether,suchthatthevarianceinthetotaldata-set,ignoringthelabels,isinthedirectionofthecigars.Forclassiﬁcation,thiswouldbeaterribleprojection,becausealllabelsgetevenlymixedandwedestroytheusefulinfor-mation.Amuchmoreusefulprojectionisorthogonaltothecigars,i.e.inthedirectionofleastoverallvariance,whichwouldperfectlyseparatethedata-cases(obviously,wewouldstillneedtoperformclassiﬁcationinthis1-Dspace).Sothequestionis,howdoweutilizethelabelinformationinﬁndinginforma-tiveprojections?TothatpurposeFisher-LDAconsidersmaximizingthefollowingobjective:J(w)=wTSBwwTSWw(13.1)whereSBisthe“betweenclassesscattermatrix”andSWisthe“withinclassesscattermatrix”.NotethatduetothefactthatscattermatricesareproportionaltothecovariancematriceswecouldhavedeﬁnedJusingcovariancematrices–theproportionalityconstantwouldhavenoeffectonthesolution.Thedeﬁnitionsof63 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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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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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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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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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LearningandIntuitionWehaveallexperiencedthesituationthatthesolutiontoaproblempresentsitselfwhileridingyourbike,walkinghome,“relaxing”inthewashroom,wakingupinthemorning,takingyourshoweretc.Importantly,itdidnotappearwhilebang-ingyourheadagainsttheprobleminaconsciousefforttosolveit,staringattheequationsonapieceofpaper.Infact,Iwouldclaim,thatallmybitsandpiecesofprogresshaveoccuredwhiletakingabreakand“relaxingoutoftheproblem”.Greekphilosopherswalkedincircleswhenthinkingaboutaproblem;mostofusstareatacomputerscreenallday.Thepurposeofthischapteristomakeyoumoreawareofwhereyourcreativemindislocatedandtointeractwithitinafruitfulmanner.Mygeneralthesisisthatcontrarytopopularbelief,creativethinkingisnotperformedbyconsciousthinking.Itisratheraninterplaybetweenyourcon-sciousmindwhopreparestheseedstobeplantedintotheunconsciouspartofyourmind.Theunconsciousmindwillmunchontheproblem“outofsight”andreturnpromisingroadstosolutionstotheconsciousness.Thisprocessiteratesuntiltheconsciousminddecidestheproblemissufﬁcientlysolved,intractableorplaindullandmovesontothenext.Itmaybealittleunsettlingtolearnthatatleastpartofyourthinkinggoesoninapartofyourmindthatseemsinaccessibleandhasaverylimitedinterfacewithwhatyouthinkofasyourself.Butitisun-deniablethatitisthereanditisalsoundeniablethatitplaysaroleinthecreativethought-process.Tobecomeacreativethinkeroneshouldhowlearntoplaythisgamemoreeffectively.Todoso,weshouldthinkaboutthelanguageinwhichtorepresentknowledgethatismosteffectiveintermsofcommunicationwiththeunconscious.Inotherwords,whattypeof“interface”betweenconsciousandunconsciousmindshouldweuse?Itisprobablynotagoodideatomemorizeallthedetailsofacomplicatedequationorproblem.Insteadweshouldextracttheabstractideaandcapturetheessenceofitinapicture.Thiscouldbeamoviewithcolorsandothervii 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Chapter5NearestNeighborsClassiﬁcationPerhapsthesimplestalgorithmtoperformclassiﬁcationisthe“knearestneigh-bors(kNN)classiﬁer”.Asusualweassumethatwehavedataoftheform{Xin,Yn}whereXinisthevalueofattributeifordata-casenandYnisthelabelfordata-casen.Wealsoneedameasureofsimilaritybetweendata-cases,whichwewilldenotewithK(Xn,Xm)wherelargervaluesofKdenotemoresimilardata-cases.Giventhesepreliminaries,classiﬁcationisembarrassinglysimple:whenyouareprovidedwiththeattributesXtforanew(unseen)test-case,youﬁrstﬁndthekmostsimilardata-casesinthedatasetbycomputingK(Xt,Xn)foralln.CallthissetS.Then,eachofthesekmostsimilarneighborsinScancastavoteonthelabelofthetestcase,whereeachneighborpredictsthatthetestcasehasthesamelabelasitself.Assumingbinarylabelsandanoddnumberofneighbors,thiswillalwaysresultinadecision.AlthoughkNNalgorithmsareoftenassociatedwiththissimplevotingscheme,moresophisticatedwaysofcombiningtheinformationoftheseneighborsisal-lowed.Forinstance,onecouldweigheachvotebythesimilaritytothetest-case.Thisresultsinthefollowingdecisionrule,Yt=1ifXn∈SK(Xt,Xn)(2Yn−1)>0(5.1)Yt=0ifXn∈SK(Xt,Xn)(2Yn−1)<0(5.2)(5.3)andﬂippingacoinifitisexactly0.Whydoweexpectthisalgorithmtoworkintuitively?Thereasonisthatweexpectdata-caseswithsimilarlabelstoclustertogetherinattributespace.Soto21 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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1.2.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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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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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. 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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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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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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=0ifS1−∞dualfeasible.73 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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: 8 Context: viPREFACE #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 63 Context: Chapter10KernelridgeRegressionPossiblythemostelementaryalgorithmthatcanbekernelizedisridgeregression.Hereourtaskistoﬁndalinearfunctionthatmodelsthedependenciesbetweencovariates{xi}andresponsevariables{yi},bothcontinuous.Theclassicalwaytodothatistominimizethequadraticcost,C(w)=12Xi(yi−wTxi)2(10.1)However,ifwearegoingtoworkinfeaturespace,wherewereplacexi→Φ(xi),thereisancleardangerthatweoverﬁt.Henceweneedtoregularize.Thisisanimportanttopicthatwillreturninfutureclasses.Asimpleyeteffectivewaytoregularizeistopenalizethenormofw.Thisissometimescalled“weight-decay”.Itremainstobedeterminedhowtochooseλ.Themostusedalgorithmistousecrossvalidationorleave-one-outestimates.Thetotalcostfunctionhencebecomes,C=12Xi(yi−wTxi)2+12λ||w||2(10.2)whichneedstobeminimized.Takingderivativesandequatingthemtozerogives,Xi(yi−wTxi)xi=λw⇒w= λI+XixixTi!−1 Xjyjxj!(10.3)Weseethattheregularizationtermhelpstostabilizetheinversenumericallybyboundingthesmallesteigenvaluesawayfromzero.51 #################### File: 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13.2.ACONSTRAINEDCONVEXPROGRAMMINGFORMULATIONOFFDA67eigenvalueequation.ThisscalesasN3whichiscertainlyexpensiveformanydatasets.Moreefﬁcientoptimizationschemessolvingaslightlydifferentproblemandbasedonefﬁcientquadraticprogramsexistintheliterature.Projectionsofnewtest-pointsintothesolutionspacecanbecomputedby,wTΦ(x)=XiαiK(xi,x)(13.19)asusual.Inordertoclassifythetestpointwestillneedtodividethespaceintoregionswhichbelongtooneclass.TheeasiestpossibilityistopicktheclusterwithsmallestMahalonobisdistance:d(x,µΦc)=(xα−µαc)2/(σαc)2whereµαcandσαcrepresenttheclassmeanandstandarddeviationinthe1-dprojectedspacerespectively.Alternatively,onecouldtrainanyclassiﬁerinthe1-dsubspace.Oneveryimportantissuethatwedidnotpayattentiontoisregularization.Clearly,asitstandsthekernelmachinewilloverﬁt.Toregularizewecanaddatermtothedenominator,SW→SW+βI(13.20)Byaddingadiagonaltermtothismatrixmakessurethatverysmalleigenvaluesareboundedawayfromzerowhichimprovesnumericalstabilityincomputingtheinverse.IfwewritetheLagrangianformulationwherewemaximizeaconstrainedquadraticforminα,theextratermappearsasapenaltyproportionalto||α||2whichactsasaweightdecayterm,favoringsmallervaluesofαoverlargerones.Fortunately,theoptimizationproblemhasexactlythesameformintheregularizedcase.13.2AConstrainedConvexProgrammingFormu-lationofFDA 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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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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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e.Reversely,pre-processingstartswiththedataandunderstandshowwecangetbacktotheunstructuredrandomstateofthedata[FIGURE].Finally,Iwillmentiononemorepopulardata-transformationtechnique.Manyalgorithmsarearebasedontheassumptionthatdataissortofsymmetricaround #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 80 Context: 68CHAPTER13.FISHERLINEARDISCRIMINANTANALYSIS #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 19 Context: Chapter2DataVisualizationTheprocessofdataanalysisdoesnotjustconsistofpickinganalgorithm,ﬁttingittothedataandreportingtheresults.Wehaveseenthatweneedtochoosearepresentationforthedatanecessitatingdata-preprocessinginmanycases.De-pendingonthedatarepresentationandthetaskathandwethenhavetochooseanalgorithmtocontinueouranalysis.Butevenafterwehaverunthealgorithmandstudytheresultsweareinterestedin,wemayrealizethatourinitialchoiceofalgorithmorrepresentationmaynothavebeenoptimal.Wemaythereforedecidetotryanotherrepresentation/algorithm,comparetheresultsandperhapscombinethem.Thisisaniterativeprocess.Whatmayhelpusindecidingtherepresentationandalgorithmforfurtheranalysis?ConsiderthetwodatasetsinFigure??.Intheleftﬁgureweseethatthedatanaturallyformsclusters,whileintherightﬁgureweobservethatthedataisapproximatelydistributedonaline.Theleftﬁguresuggestsaclusteringapproachwhiletherightﬁguresuggestsadimensionalityreductionapproach.Thisillus-tratestheimportanceoflookingatthedatabeforeyoustartyouranalysisinsteadof(literally)blindlypickinganalgorithm.Afteryourﬁrstpeek,youmaydecidetotransformthedataandthenlookagaintoseeifthetransformeddatabettersuittheassumptionsofthealgorithmyouhaveinmind.“Lookingatthedata”soundsmoreeasythanitreallyis.Thereasonisthatwearenotequippedtothinkinmorethan3dimensions,whilemostdatalivesinmuchhigherdimensions.Forinstanceimagepatchesofsize10×10liveina100pixelspace.Howarewegoingtovisualizeit?Therearemanyanswerstothisproblem,butmostinvolveprojection:wedetermineanumberof,say,2or3dimensionalsubspacesontowhichweprojectthedata.Thesimplestchoiceofsubspacesaretheonesalignedwiththefeatures,e.g.wecanplotX1nversusX2n7 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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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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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7.2.ADIFFERENTCOSTFUNCTION:LOGISTICREGRESSION37Thefactthatwearepickingdata-casesrandomlyinjectsnoiseintheupdates,soevenclosetoconvergenceweare“wigglingaround”thesolution.Ifwedecreasethestepsizehowever,thewigglesgetsmaller.Soitseemsasensiblestrategywouldbetoslowlydecreasethestepsizeandwiggleourwaytothesolution.Thisstochasticgradientdescentisactuallyveryefﬁcientinpracticeifwecanﬁndagoodannealingscheduleforthestepsize.Whyreally?Itseemsthatifweusemoredata-casesinamini-batchtoperformaparameterupdateweshouldbeabletomakelargerstepsinparameterspacebyusingbiggerstepsizes.Whilethisreasoningholdsclosetothesolutionitdoesnotfarawayfromthesolution.Theintuitivereasonisthatfarawayfromconvergenceeverydatapointwilltellyouthesamestory:moveindirectionXtoimproveyourmodel.Yousimplydonotneedtoquerydatapointsinordertoextractthatinformation.Soforabadmodelthereisalotofredundancyintheinformationthatdata-casescanconveyaboutimprovingtheparametersandqueryingafewissufﬁcient.Closertoconvergenceyouneedtoeitherusemoredataordecreasethestepsizetoincreasetheresolutionofyourgradients.Thistypeofreasoningclearlymakesanefforttoincludethecomputationalbudgetpartoftheoverallobjective.ThisiswhatwehavearguedinchapterXXisthedistinguishingfeatureofmachinelearning.Ifyouarenotconvincedabouthowimportantthisisinthefaceofmoderndaydatasetsimaginerthefollowing.CompanyCorganizesacontestwheretheyprovideavirtuallyinﬁnitedatasetforsomepredictiontask.Youcanearn1milliondollarsifyoumakeaccuratepredictionsonsometestsetbyFridaynextweek.Youcanchoosebetweenasingleparameterupdatebasedonallthedataormanyupdatesonsmallsubsetsofthedata,Whodoyouthinkwillwinthecontest?7.2ADifferentCostfunction:LogisticRegressionThecostfunctionofEq.7.2penalizesgrossviolationsofonespredictionsratherseverely(quadratically).Thisissometimescounter-productivebecausethealgo-rithmmightgetobsessedwithimprovingtheperformanceofonesingledata-caseattheexpenseofalltheothers.Therealcostsimplycountsthenumberofmis-labelledinstances,irrespectiveofhowbadlyoffyoupredict 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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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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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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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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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you understand Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down #################### 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: 72 Context: 60CHAPTER12.KERNELPRINCIPALCOMPONENTSANALYSIStainedeigen-directionsoflargestvariance:UΛUT=C⇒C=XaλauauTa(12.2)andtheprojectionisgivenby,yi=UTkxi∀i(12.3)whereUkmeansthed×ksub-matrixcontainingtheﬁrstkeigenvectorsascolumns.Asasideeffect,wecannowshowthattheprojecteddataarede-correlatedinthisnewbasis:1NXiyiyTi=1NXiUTkxixTiUk=UTkCUk=UTkUΛUTUTk=Λk(12.4)whereΛkisthe(diagonal)k×ksub-matrixcorrespondingtothelargesteigen-values.AnotherconvenientpropertyofthisprocedureisthatthereconstructionerrorinL2-normbetweenfromytoxisminimal,i.e.Xi||xi−Pkxi||2(12.5)wherePk=UkUTkistheprojectionontothesubspacespannedbythecolumnsofUk,isminimal.Nowimaginethattherearemoredimensionsthandata-cases,i.e.somedi-mensionsremainunoccupiedbythedata.Inthiscaseitisnothardtoshowthattheeigen-vectorsthatspantheprojectionspacemustlieinthesubspacespannedbythedata-cases.Thiscanbeseenasfollows,λaua=Cua=1NXixixTiua=1NXi(xTiua)xi⇒ua=Xi(xTiua)Nλaxi=Xiαaixi(12.6)whereuaissomearbitraryeigen-vectorofC.Thelastexpressioncanbeinter-pretedas:“everyeigen-vectorcanbeexactlywritten(i.e.losslessly)assomelinearcombinationofthedata-vectors,andhenceitmustlieinitsspan”.ThisalsoimpliesthatinsteadoftheeigenvalueequationsCu=λuwemayconsidertheNprojectedequationsxTiCu=λxTiu∀i.Fromthisequationthecoefﬁcients 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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 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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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72CHAPTER14.KERNELCANONICALCORRELATIONANALYSISAnaloguestotheprimalproblem,wewilldeﬁnebigmatrices,KDwhichcontains(K2x+ηI)and(K2y+ηI)asblocksonthediagonalandzerosattheblocksoffthediagonal,andthematrixKOwhichhasthematricesKxKyontheright-upperoffdiagonalblockandKyKxattheleft-loweroff-diagonalblock.Also,wedeﬁneγ=[α,β].Thisleadstotheequation,KOγ=λKDγ⇒K−1DKOγ=λγ⇒K12OK−1DK12O(K12Oγ)=λ(K12Oγ)(14.15)whichisagainaregulareigenvalueequation.Notethattheregularizationalsomovedthesmallesteigenvalueawayfromzero,andhencemadetheinversemorenumericallystable.Thevalueforηneedstobechosenusingcross-validationorsomeothermeasure.Solvingtheequationsusingthislargereigen-valueproblemisactuallynotquitenecessary,andmoreefﬁcientmethodsexist(seebook).Thesolutionsarenotexpectedtobesparse,becauseeigen-vectorsarenotexpectedtobesparse.OnewouldhavetoreplaceL2normpenaltieswithL1normpenaltiestoobtainsparsity. #################### File: 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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) 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78APPENDIXB.KERNELDESIGNterm,(xTy)s=(x1y1+x2y2+...+xnyn)s=Xi1,i2,...,ini1+i2+...+in=ss!i1!i2!...in!(x1y1)i1(x2y2)i2...(xnyn)in(B.4)Takentogetherwitheqn.B.3weseethatthefeaturescorrespondto,φI(x)=sd!(d−s)!1i1!i2!...in!Rd−sxi11xi22...xinnwithi1+i2+...+in=s0andαi>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. #################### File: 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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) #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 93 Context: Bibliography81 #################### 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: 88 Context: 76APPENDIXA.ESSENTIALSOFCONVEXOPTIMIZATIONComplementaryslacknessiseasilyderivedby,f0(x∗)=LD(λ∗,ν∗)=infx f0(x)+Xiλ∗ifi(x)+Xjν∗jhj(x)!≤f0(x∗)+Xiλ∗ifi(x∗)+Xjν∗jhj(x∗)(A.13)≤f0(x∗)(A.14)wheretheﬁrstlinefollowsfromEqn.A.6thesecondbecausetheinfisalwayssmallerthananyx∗andthelastbecausefi(x∗)≤0,λ∗i≥0andhj(x∗)=0.Henceallinequalitiesareequalitiesandeachtermisnegativesoeachtermmustvanishseparately. #################### 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: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 34 Context: cation“ontheﬂy”.KNNisalsoknowntosufferfromthe“curseofhighdimensions”.Ifweusemanyfeaturestodescribeourdata,andinparticularwhenmostofthesefea-turesturnouttobeirrelevantandnoisyfortheclassiﬁcation,thenkNNisquicklyconfused.Imaginethattherearetwofeaturesthatcontainalltheinformationnec-essaryforaperfectclassiﬁcation,butthatwehaveadded98noisy,uninformativefeatures.Theneighborsinthetwodimensionalspaceoftherelevantfeaturesareunfortunatelynolongerlikelytobetheneighborsinthe100dimensionalspace, #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 92 Context: 80APPENDIXB.KERNELDESIGN #################### File: test%20%281%29.docx Page: 3 Context: Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you #################### File: A%20First%20Encounter%20with%20Machine%20Learning%20-%20Max%20Welling%20%28PDF%29%20%281%29.pdf Page: 2 Context: 2 ########## 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Please answer all my questions precisely and comprehensively. Through our system KIOS you have a Knowledge Base named vector deletion 9 with all the informations that the user requests. In this knowledge base are following Documents A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF) (1).pdf, test (1).docx, Untitled document.docx, my password is.txt, my password is(1).txt This is the initial message to start the chat. Based on the following summary/context you should formulate an initial message greeting the user with the following user name [Gender] [Vorname] [Surname] tell them that you are the AI Chatbot Simon using the Large Language Model [Used Model] to answer all questions. Formulate the initial message in the Usersettings Language German Please use the following context to suggest some questions or topics to chat about this knowledge base. List at least 3-10 possible topics or suggestions up and use emojis. The chat should be professional and in business terms. At the end ask an open question what the user would like to check on the list. Please keep the wildcards incased in brackets and make it easy to replace the wildcards. The provided context consists of several files, each containing information related to machine learning. **File: Untitled document.docx** This file contains only the text "Page 1" repeated three times. It does not provide any meaningful information. **File: A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF) (1).pdf** This file is a book chapter on machine learning. It covers various topics, including: * **Data and Information:** The chapter discusses the importance of data structure and how it relates to tasks like prediction, interpretation, and compression. It also covers data representation and preprocessing techniques. * **Learning:** The chapter delves into the core concept of learning, emphasizing the importance of generalization and avoiding overfitting. It introduces the concepts of inductive bias and the trade-off between bias and variance. * **Types of Machine Learning:** The chapter outlines different types of machine learning problems, including supervised learning, unsupervised learning, semi-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, active learning, and multi-task learning. * **Nearest Neighbors Classification:** The chapter explains the k-nearest neighbors (kNN) algorithm, a simple non-parametric method for classification. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of kNN, including its susceptibility to the curse of dimensionality. * **The Naive Bayesian Classifier:** The chapter introduces the Naive Bayes (NB) classifier, a generative model that assumes independence between attributes. It explains how to learn an NB classifier and how to use it for class prediction. * **The Perceptron:** The chapter describes the perceptron, a simple parametric classifier that assumes linear separability of data. It explains how to train a perceptron using gradient descent and discusses the concept of overfitting. * **Support Vector Machines:** The chapter introduces Support Vector Machines (SVMs), a powerful method for classification that aims to maximize the margin between classes. It covers both the linearly separable and non-separable cases, explaining the concept of support vectors and how to kernelize SVMs. * **Support Vector Regression:** The chapter explains Support Vector Regression (SVR), a sparse regression method that uses the concept of an epsilon-tube to penalize data points outside a certain margin. * **Kernel Ridge Regression:** The chapter introduces Kernel Ridge Regression, a kernelized version of ridge regression that aims to find a linear function in feature space to model dependencies between covariates and response variables. * **Kernel K-means and Spectral Clustering:** The chapter discusses Kernel K-means, a kernelized version of the K-means clustering algorithm. It also introduces spectral clustering, a method that uses kernel PCA to extract a clustering solution. * **Kernel Principal Components Analysis:** The chapter explains Kernel Principal Components Analysis (KPCA), a non-linear dimensionality reduction technique that projects data onto a lower-dimensional subspace of largest variance. * **Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis:** The chapter introduces Fisher Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), a supervised dimensionality reduction technique that aims to find projections that maximize the separation between classes. It covers both the standard LDA and its kernelized version. * **Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis:** The chapter explains Kernel Canonical Correlation Analysis (CCA), a method for finding projections of two sets of data that are maximally correlated. * **Essentials of Convex Optimization:** The chapter provides a brief overview of convex optimization, including the concepts of Lagrangians, duality, and Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. * **Kernel Design:** The chapter discusses different kernel functions, including polynomial kernels, all subsets kernels, and the Gaussian kernel. **File: test (1).docx** This file contains the lyrics of the song "Never Gonna Give You Up" by Rick Astley. **File: my password is (1).txt** This file contains a password, which is redacted in the context. In summary, the context provides a comprehensive introduction to machine learning, covering various algorithms, concepts, and techniques. It also includes a popular song and a redacted password. """ Consider the chat history for relevant information. If query is already asked in the history double check the correctness of your answer and maybe correct your previous mistake. If you find information separated by a | in the context, it is a table formatted in Markdown - the whole context is formatted as md structure. 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Ich habe Zugriff auf die Wissensdatenbank "vector deletion 9" und kann dir Informationen aus den Dokumenten "A First Encounter with Machine Learning - Max Welling (PDF) (1).pdf", "test (1).docx", "Untitled document.docx", "my password is.txt" und "my password is(1).txt" liefern. Was möchtest du heute wissen? Hier sind ein paar Themenvorschläge: * **Machine Learning Grundlagen:** 🤖 Was ist Machine Learning und wie funktioniert es? * **Verschiedene Arten von Machine Learning:** 🧠 Supervised Learning, Unsupervised Learning, Reinforcement Learning - was sind die Unterschiede? * **Algorithmen im Detail:** 💻 Erkläre mir den Perceptron oder den Naive Bayes Classifier. * **Kernel Methoden:** 🧮 Was sind Kernel und wie werden sie in Machine Learning eingesetzt? * **Datenvisualisierung:** 📊 Wie kann ich Daten visualisieren, um Muster zu erkennen? * **Überfitting und Regularisierung:** 🚫 Wie kann ich Überfitting vermeiden und meine Modelle verbessern? * **Der Song "Never Gonna Give You Up":** 🎶 Was sind die Lyrics von diesem Song? Was interessiert dich am meisten aus dieser Liste? 🤔 ================================================== **Elapsed Time: 0.47 seconds** ==================================================