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Cross-Validation Optimization for Structured Hessian Kernel Methods

2006

Technical Report

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We address the problem of learning hyperparameters in kernel methods for which the Hessian of the objective is structured. We propose an approximation to the cross-validation log likelihood whose gradient can be computed analytically, solving the hyperparameter learning problem efficiently through nonlinear optimization. Crucially, our learning method is based entirely on matrix-vector multiplication primitives with the kernel matrices and their derivatives, allowing straightforward specialization to new kernels or to large datasets. When applied to the problem of multi-way classification, our method scales linearly in the number of classes and gives rise to state-of-the-art results on a remote imaging task.

Author(s): Seeger, M. and Chapelle, O.
Year: 2006
Month: February
Day: 0

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Technical Report (techreport)

Institution: Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

Digital: 0
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

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@techreport{3863,
  title = {Cross-Validation Optimization for Structured Hessian Kernel Methods},
  author = {Seeger, M. and Chapelle, O.},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  institution = {Max-Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  month = feb,
  year = {2006},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {2}
}