Some connections between learning and optimization

  • Authors:
  • Martin Anthony

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London WC2A 2AE, UK

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics - Discrete mathematics & data mining (DM & DM)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This article is a brief exposition of some of the important links between machine learning and combinatorial optimization. We explain how efficient 'learnability' in standard probabilistic models of learning is linked to the existence of efficient randomized algorithms for certain natural combinatorial optimization problems, and we discuss the complexity of some of these optimization problems.