Kernel Methods and Machine Learning

S. Y. Kung is a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. His research areas include VLSI array/parallel processors, system modeling and identification, wireless communication, statistical signal processing, multimedia processing, sensor networks, bioinformatics, data mining and machine learning.

Part I. Machine Learning and Kernel Vector Spaces: 1. Fundamentals of machine learning; 2. Kernel-induced vector spaces; Part II. Dimension-Reduction: Feature Selection and PCA/KPCA: 3. Feature selection; 4. PCA and Kernel-PCA; Part III. Unsupervised Learning Models for Cluster Analysis: 5. Unsupervised learning for cluster discovery; 6. Kernel methods for cluster discovery; Part IV. Kernel Ridge Regressors and Variants: 7. Kernel-based regression and regularization analysis; 8. Linear regression and discriminant analysis for supervised classification; 9. Kernel ridge regression for supervised classification; Part V. Support Vector Machines and Variants: 10. Support vector machines; 11. Support vector learning models for outlier detection; 12. Ridge-SVM learning models; Part VI. Kernel Methods for Green Machine Learning Technologies: 13. Efficient kernel methods for learning and classifcation; Part VII. Kernel Methods and Statistical Estimation Theory: 14. Statistical regression analysis and errors-in-variables models; 15: Kernel methods for estimation, prediction, and system identification; Part VIII. Appendices: Appendix A. Validation and test of learning models; Appendix B. kNN, PNN, and Bayes classifiers; References; Index.