Search results for “структурная минимизация риска”

The problem of estimating generalization ability; the error matrix and the probability of overfitting; the case of a single algorithm and the hypergeometric distribution; the principle of uniform convergence of frequencies and Boole's inequality; the Vapnik–Chervonenkis bound, the growth function and the capacity of a family of algorithms; inverting the bound and the complexity penalty; structural risk minimization; the splitting and similarity effects; the Occam's razor bound and its link to regularization.

The combinatorial theory of overfitting: the probability of overfitting and why the Vapnik–Chervonenkis bounds are loose; experiments with overfitting — a monotone chain of algorithms, the effect of splitting and connectivity of the family on the probability of overfitting and on the complete cross-validation estimate, overfitting of chains, the exact formula for the probability of overfitting when choosing between two algorithms; the splitting–connectivity graph of a family of algorithms, examples for linear classifiers, a monotone chain and a two-dimensional net; generating and forbidden sets, upper connectivity and inferiority of an algorithm; the splitting–connectivity upper bound, the idea of its proof and its properties.

Bias–variance analysis: the decomposition of the error into noise, bias and variance, the bias and variance of simple voting, why complex ensembles do not overfit; gradient boosting for an arbitrary loss function as a parametric approximation of a gradient step; stochastic gradient boosting; special cases: regression, AdaBoost, AnyBoost, variants of loss functions; XGBoost: the tree as a linear model, L0 and L2 regularisation, analytical leaf values and the splitting criterion; CatBoost: leakage in the gradients, ordered boosting on subsamples of doubling length, unbiased target statistics for categorical features.

Kohonen networks: clustering as a two-layer neural network, the hard (WTA) and soft (WTM) competition rules, self-organising Kohonen maps and their interpretation; autoencoders: the formulation of the problem, the linear autoencoder and the principal component method, sparse, denoising, contractive, relational and variational autoencoders, reparametrisation, autoencoders for supervised learning, multilayer autoencoders; joint training of several models: pre-training and transfer learning, multi-task learning and few-shot learning, self-supervised learning, distillation and surrogate modelling, learning using privileged information (LUPI), generative adversarial networks (GAN).

Where simplicial homology shows up in real life — topological data analysis. The union of balls around a point cloud, persistence modules and their decomposition into a sum of interval modules over a field (the structure theorem and the algorithm), the barcode; the Vietoris–Rips and Čech complexes; the stability theorem for barcodes, the Hausdorff, Gromov–Hausdorff and Wasserstein distances; open covers and their nerves, Leray covers and the nerve theorem, the category of covers, paracompactness, Lebesgue covering dimension, Čech homology and cohomology.

Association rule mining as unsupervised learning: binary features, support and frequent itemsets, the association rule, minimum support MinSupp and minimum confidence MinConf; market basket analysis; the link between association rules and logical regularities; the anti-monotonicity of support; the APriori algorithm: breadth-first search for frequent itemsets and recursive extraction of rules; modifications: search on a random subsample, item hierarchies, incremental and decremental algorithms; the FP-growth algorithm: the prefix FP-tree, building it in one pass over the transaction database, computing the support of any itemset from the tree, the conditional FP-tree and recursive search for frequent itemsets; the speed of FP-growth compared with APriori.

The clustering problem and its ill-posedness, the aims of clustering, types of cluster structure, sensitivity to the choice of metric; the problem of semi-supervised learning and transductive learning, why it reduces neither to classification nor to clustering; criteria of clustering quality, the silhouette coefficient, the BCubed measures of precision and recall; the k-means method (Lloyd's algorithm) as a simplification of the EM algorithm for a mixture of Gaussians; the DBSCAN algorithm; agglomerative hierarchical clustering, the Lance–Williams formula and its special cases, the dendrogram, monotonicity, contracting and dilating distances, Ward's distance; semi-supervised learning based on classification: self-training, co-training, co-learning, the transductive SVM, expectation regularisation (XR).

Sequence-to-sequence problems: the recurrent network, the encoder–decoder architecture and its limitations; the recurrent network with an attention model, interpreting the attention matrix in machine translation and image captioning; similarity functions, the query–key–value attention model, the attention formula, self-attention; multi-head attention and its regularisation, hierarchical attention for document classification, the graph attention model GAT; the transformer for machine translation: the encoder, positional encoding, layer normalisation and skip connections, the decoder with masking, the training criterion, BLEU and WER; the transformer encoder BERT, the MLM and NSP criteria, fine-tuning, BPE and WordPiece tokenisation, model sizes.