Model Selection for Regularized Least-Squares Algorithm in Learning Theory

  • Authors:
  • E. De Vito;A. Caponnetto;L. Rosasco

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita di Modena, Via Campi 213/B, 41100 Modena, Italy and I.N.F.N., Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy;D.I.S.I., Universita di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy and I.N.F.M., Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy;D.I.S.I., Universita di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 35, 16146 Genova, Italy and I.N.F.M., Sezione di Genova, Via Dodecaneso 33, 16146 Genova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Foundations of Computational Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We investigate the problem of model selection for learning algorithms depending on a continuous parameter. We propose a model selection procedure based on a worst-case analysis and on a data-independent choice of the parameter. For the regularized least-squares algorithm we bound the generalization error of the solution by a quantity depending on a few known constants and we show that the corresponding model selection procedure reduces to solving a bias-variance problem. Under suitable smoothness conditions on the regression function, we estimate the optimal parameter as a function of the number of data and we prove that this choice ensures consistency of the algorithm.