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Book Reviews
An Introduction to Support
Vector Machines and
Other Kernel-Based
Learning Methods
A Review
Tong Zhang
An Introduction to
Support Vector Machines
and Other Kernel-Based
Learning Methods, Nello
Cristianini and
John Shawe-Taylor,
Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge, U.K.,
2000, 189 pp.,
ISBN 0-521-78019-5.
ceived much attention because of the
introduction of support vector machines (SVMs) and the renewed interest in Gaussian processes. SVMs, introduced by Vapnik and his collaborators,
were originally formulated for binaryclassification problems. The resulting
method is similar to penalized maximum-likelihood estimators using logistic models (also known as conditional maximum entropy classification
models). Later, SVMs were extended to
regression problems, and the resulting
formulations are similar to ridge regression.
Copyright 2001, American Association for Artificial Intelligence. All rights reserved. 0738-4602-2001 / $2.00
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1. www.support-vector.net.
Tony Zhang received a B.A. in mathematics and computer science from Cornell University in 1994 and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University in 1998.
Since 1998, he has been with IBM Research,
T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, New York, where he is now a research staff member in the Mathematical
Sciences Department. His research interests
include machine learning, numeric algorithms, and their applications. His e-mail
address is tzhang@watson.ibm.com.