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A comprehensive and self-contained introduction to Gaussian processes, which provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines.Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a principled, practical, probabilistic approach to learning in kernel machines. GPs have received increased attention in the machine-learning community over the past decade, and this book provides a long-needed systematic and unified treatment of theoretical and practical aspects of GPs in machine learning. The treatment is comprehensive and self-contained, targeted at researchers and students in machine learning and applied statistics. The book deals with the supervised-learning problem for both regression and classification, and includes detailed algorithms. A wide variety of covariance (kernel) functions are presented and their properties discussed. Model selection is discussed both from a Bayesian and a classical perspective. Many connections to other well-known techniques from machine learning and statistics are discussed, including support-vector machines, neural networks, splines, regularization networks, relevance vector machines and others. Theoretical issues including learning curves and the PAC-Bayesian framework are treated, and several approximation methods for learning with large datasets are discussed. The book contains illustrative examples and exercises, and code and datasets are available on the Web. Appendixes provide mathematical background and a discussion of Gaussian Markov processes.Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press LTD
ISBN-139780262182539
eBay Product ID (ePID)87246500
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Number of Pages272 Pages
Publication NameGaussian Processes for Machine Learning
LanguageEnglish
SubjectComputer Science, Mathematics
Publication Year2005
TypeTextbook
AuthorChristopher K. I. Williams, Carl Edward Rasmussen
SeriesAdaptive Computation and Machine Learning Series
Dimensions
Item Height254 mm
Item Weight726 g
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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorChristopher K. I. Williams, Carl Edward Rasmussen