Random Projections, Margins and Learning

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Friday, 8 March 2013, 14:30 to 16:00

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  • A-212 (STCS Seminar Room)

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In this talk we will give an introduction to random projections. Define the linear separability of data by a margin $\gamma$. Then we will see a simple algorithm to learn a linear separator and show that it will have error at most $\frac{1}{2} - \frac{\gamma}{4}$ with probability $\Omega(\gamma)$.