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A Kernel Classifier for Distributions

Pozdnoukhov, Alexei
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Bengio, Samy  
2005

This paper presents a new algorithm for classifying distributions. The algorithm combines the principle of margin maximization and a kernel trick, applied to distributions. Thus, it combines the discriminative power of support vector machines and the well-developed framework of generative models. It can be applied to a number of real-life tasks which include data represented as distributions. The algorithm can also be applied for introducing some prior knowledge on invariances into a discriminative model. We illustrate this approach in details for the case of Gaussian distributions, using a toy problem. We also present experiments devoted to the real-life problem of invariant image classification.

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report
Author(s)
Pozdnoukhov, Alexei
•
Bengio, Samy  
Date Issued

2005

Publisher

IDIAP

Subjects

learning

Note

Submitted to NIPS

URL

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http://publications.idiap.ch/downloads/reports/2005/rr05-32.pdf
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EPFL

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LIDIAP  
Available on Infoscience
March 10, 2006
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/228756
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