Alignment based kernel learning with a continuous set of base kernels

DOI10.1007/S10994-013-5361-8MaRDI QIDQ399887zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Arash Afkanpour, Csaba Szepesvári, Michael Bowling

Publication date 20 August 2014

Published in Machine Learning (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.4607

zbMATH Keywords

continuous kernel setstwo-stage kernel learning

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence (68T05)

Abstract: The success of kernel-based learning methods depend on the choice of kernel. Recently, kernel learning methods have been proposed that use data to select the most appropriate kernel, usually by combining a set of base kernels. We introduce a new algorithm for kernel learning that combines a {em continuous set of base kernels}, without the common step of discretizing the space of base kernels. We demonstrate that our new method achieves state-of-the-art performance across a variety of real-world datasets. Furthermore, we explicitly demonstrate the importance of combining the right dictionary of kernels, which is problematic for methods based on a finite set of base kernels chosen a priori. Our method is not the first approach to work with continuously parameterized kernels. However, we show that our method requires substantially less computation than previous such approaches, and so is more amenable to multiple dimensional parameterizations of base kernels, which we demonstrate.

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• MNIST
• SimpleMKL
• UCI
• SHOGUN

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