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Theory of Classification: a Survey of Some Recent Advances

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 November 2005

Stéphane Boucheron ,
Olivier Bousquet  and
Gábor Lugosi
Stéphane Boucheron
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Probabilités et Modèles Aléatoires, CNRS & Université Paris VII, Paris, France.
Olivier Bousquet
Affiliation:
Pertinence SA, 32 rue des Jeûneurs, 75002 Paris, France.
Gábor Lugosi
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Pompeu Fabra University, Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27, 08005 Barcelona, Spain; [email protected]
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Abstract

The last few years have witnessed important new developments inthe theory and practice of pattern classification. We intend tosurvey some of the main new ideas that have led to theserecent results.

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Pattern recognitionstatistical learning theoryconcentration inequalitiesempirical processesmodel selection.
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ESAIM: Probability and Statistics , Volume 9 , February 2005 , pp. 323 - 375
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