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作者： Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi等著
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出版时间： 2006-3-1字数：版次： 1页数： 394印刷时间： 2006/03/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780521841085包装： 精装编辑推荐
作者简介：
Nicolò Cesa-Bianchi is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Milan, Italy. His research interests include learning theory, pattern analysis, and worst-case analysis of algorithms. He is action editor of The Machine Learning Journal. Gábor Lugosi has been working on various problems in pattern classification, nonparametric statistics, statistical learning theory, game theory, probability, and information theory. He is co-author of the monographs, A Probabilistic Theory of Pattern Recognition and Combinatorial Methods of Density Estimation. He has been an associate editor of various journals including The IEEE Transactions of Information Theory, Test, ESAIM: Probability and Statistics and Statistics and Decisions.
内容简介
This important new text and reference for researchers and students in machine learning, game theory, statistics and information theory offers the first comprehensive treatment of the problem of predicting individual sequences. Unlike standard statistical approaches to forecasting, prediction of individual sequences does not impose any probabilistic assumption on the data-generating mechanism. Yet, prediction algorithms can be constructed that work well for all possible sequences, in the sense that their performance is always nearly as good as the best forecasting strategy in a given reference class. The central theme is the model of prediction using expert advice, a general framework within which many related problems can be cast and discussed. Repeated game playing, adaptive data compression, sequential investment in the stock market, sequential pattern analysis, and several other problems are viewed as instances of the experts' framework and analyzed from a common nonstochastic standpoint that often reveals new and intriguing connections. Old and new forecasting methods are described in a mathematically precise way in order to characterize their theoretical limitations and possibilities.
目录
Preface
1 Introduction
1.1 Prediction
1.2 Learning
1.3 Games
1.4 A Gentle Start
1.5 A Note to the Reader
2 Prediction with Expert Advice
2.1 Weighted Average Prediction
2.2 An Optimal Bound
2.3 Bounds That Hold Uniformly over Time
2.4 An Improvement for Small Losses
2.5 Forecasters Using the Gradient of the Loss
2.6 Scaled Losses and Signed Games
2.7 The Multilinear Forecaster
2.8 The Exponential Forecaster for Signed Games
2.9 Simulatable Experts
2.10 Minimax Regret
2.11 Discounted Regret
2.12 Bibliographic Remarks
2.13 Exercises
3 Tight Bounds for Specific Losses
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Follow the Best Expert
3.3 Exp-concave Loss Functions
3.4 The Greedy Forecaster
3.5 The Aggregating Forecaster
3.6 Mixability for Certain Losses
3.7 General Lower Bounds
3.8 Bibliographic Remarks
3.9 Exercises
4 Randomized Prediction
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Weighted Average Forecasters
4.3 Follow the Perturbed Leader
4.4 Internal Regret
4.5 Calibration
4.6 Generalized Regret
4.7 Calibration with Checking Rules
4.8 Bibliographic Remarks
4.9 Exercises
5 Efficient Forecasters for Large Classes of Experts
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Tracking the Best Expert
5.3 Tree Experts
5.4 The Shortest Path Problem
5.5 Tracking the Best of Many Actions
5.6 Bibliographic Remarks
5.7 Exercises
6 Prediction with Limited Feedback
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Label Efficient Prediction
6.3 Lower Bounds
6.4 Partial Monitoring
6.5 A General Forecaster for Partial Monitoring
6.6 Hannah Consistency and Partial Monitoring
6.7 Multi-armed Bandit Problems
6.8 An Improved Bandit Strategy
6.9 Lower Bounds for the Bandit Problem
6.10 How to Select the Best Action
6.11 Bibliographic Remarks
6.12 Exercises
7 Prediction and Playing Games
7.1 Games and Equilibria
7.2 Minimax Theorems
7.3 Repeated Two-Player Zero-Sum Games
7.4 Correlated Equilibrium and Internal Regret
7.5 Unknown Games: Game-Theoretic Bandits
7.6 Calibration and Correlated Equilibrium
7.7 Blackwell's Approachability Theorem
7.8 Potential-based Approachability
7.9 Convergence to Nash Equilibria
7.10 Convergence in Unknown Games
7.11 Playing Against Opponents That React
7.12 Bibliographic Remarks
7.13 Exercises
8Absolute loss
9Logarithmic loss
10Sequential investment
11Linear pattern recognition
12Linear classification
Appendix
References
Author Index
Subject Index