Learning Theory

Felipe Cucker is a Professor of Mathematics at the City University of Hong Kong. Ding Xuan Zhou is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the City University of Hong Kong.

• Preface; Foreword; 1. The framework of learning; 2. Basic hypothesis spaces; 3. Estimating the sample error; 4. Polynomial decay approximation error; 5. Estimating covering numbers; 6. Logarithmic decay approximation error; 7. On the bias-variance problem; 8. Regularization; 9. Support vector machines for classification; 10. General regularized classifiers; Bibliography; Index.

'The book is well suited for its target audience, which includes researchers and graduate students. They will, no doubt, be reassured to find that each chapter closes with a collection of references and additional remarks, which place the preceding information in a wider context. … Overall, this text is another excellent addition to the Applied and Computational Mathematics series published by Cambridge University Press. It complements other titles in the series without duplicating material and should be of value to anyone interested in learning theory or a neighbouring field.' Mathematics Today