A comprehensive look at learning and generalization theory. The statistical theory of learning and generalization concerns the problem of choosing desired functions on the basis of empirical data. Highly applicable to a variety of computer science and robotics fields, this book offers lucid coverage of the theory as a whole. Presenting a method for determining the necessary and sufficient conditions for consistency of learning process, the author covers function estimates from small data pools, applying these estimations to real-life problems, and much more.
About the Author
Vladimir Naumovich Vapnik is one of the main developers of the Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory of statistical learning, and the co-inventor of the support vector machine method, and support vector clustering algorithm.
