Course Description
The main goal of this course is to study the generalization ability of a number of popular machine learning algorithms such as boosting, support vector machines and neural networks. Topics include Vapnik-Chervonenkis theory, concentration inequalities in product spaces, and other elements of empirical process theory.
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![Image of Talagrand's convex-hull distance on the cube.](/courses/18-465-topics-in-statistics-statistical-learning-theory-spring-2007/00d896340dedef11b2ef02c3af894892_18-465s07.jpg)
d2 represents Talagrand’s convex-hull distance on the cube. (Image by Prof. Dmitry Panchenko.)