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NeuroCOLT Technical Report NC-TR-01-087


2001-087
On Optimizing Kernel Alignment

Nello Cristianini
Jaz Kandola
Andre Elisseeff
John Shawe-Taylor

ABSTRACT
We address the problem of measuring the degree of agreement between a kernel and a learning task. We propose a quantity to capture this notion, which we call Alignment. We study its theoretical properties, and derive a series of algorithms for adapting a kernel to the labels and vice versa. This produces a series of novel methods for clustering and transduction, kernel combination and kernel selection.

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