Kernel methods and the exponential family

  • Authors:
  • Stéphane Canu;Alex Smola

  • Affiliations:
  • 1-PSI-FRE CNRS 2645, INSA de Rouen, France, St Etienne du Rouvray, France;Statistical Machine Learning Program, National ICT, Australia and RSISE, Australian National University, Canberra, 0200 ACT, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Neurocomputing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

The success of support vector machine (SVM) has given rise to the development of a new class of theoretically elegant learning machines which use a central concept of kernels and the associated reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). Exponential families, a standard tool in statistics, can be used to unify many existing machine learning algorithms based on kernels (such as SVM) and to invent novel ones quite effortlessly. A new derivation of the novelty detection algorithm based on the one class SVM is proposed to illustrate the power of the exponential family model in an RKHS.