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To Dual or Not

Yoram and Shai’s online learning tutorial at ICML brings up a question for me, “Why use the dual?”The basic setting is learning a weight vector wi so that the function f(x)= sumi wi xi optimizes some convex loss function.The functional v... Read more…

Published: 23:26 07/06/2008, Source: Machine Learning (Theory), Do you like this article? yes/no Points: 0