Regularization with Dot-product kernels

Alex J. Smola, Zoltán L. Óvári, Robert C. Williamson

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    Abstract

    In this paper we give necessary and sufficient conditions under which kernels of dot product type k(x,y) = k(x · y) satisfy Mercer's condition and thus may be used in Support Vector Machines (SVM), Regularization Networks (RN) or Gaussian Processes (GP). In particular, we show that if the kernel is analytic (i.e. can be expanded in a Taylor series), all expansion coefficients have to be nonnegative. We give an explicit functional form for the feature map by calculating its eigenfunctions and eigenvalues.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13 - Proceedings of the 2000 Conference, NIPS 2000
    PublisherNeural Information Processing Systems Foundation
    ISBN (Print)0262122413, 9780262122412
    Publication statusPublished - 2001
    Event14th Annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 2000 - Denver, CO, United States
    Duration: 27 Nov 20002 Dec 2000

    Publication series

    NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems
    ISSN (Print)1049-5258

    Conference

    Conference14th Annual Neural Information Processing Systems Conference, NIPS 2000
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityDenver, CO
    Period27/11/002/12/00

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