Pattern recognition and machine learning /

Bishop, Christopher M.

Pattern recognition and machine learning / Christopher M. Bishop. - New York : Springer, c2006. - xx, 738 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm. - Information science and statistics .

Textbook for graduates.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 711-728) and index.

Introduction. Example : polynomial curve fitting ; Probability theory ; Model selection ; The curse of dimensionality Decision theory ; Information theory -- Probability distributions. Binary vehicles ; Multinomial variables ; The Gaussian distribution ; The exponential family ; Nonparametric methods -- Linear models for regression. Linear basis function models ; The bias-variance decomposition ; Bayesian linear regression ; Bayesian model comparison ; The evidence approximation ; Limitations of fixed basis functions -- Linear models for classification. Discriminant functions ; Probabilistic generative models ; Probabilistic discrimitive models ; The Laplace approximation ; Bayesian logistic regression -- Neural networks. Feed-forward network functions ; Network training ; Error backpropagation ; The Hessian matrix ; Regularization in neural networks ; Mixture density networks ; Bayesian neural networks -- Kernel methods. Dual representations ; Constructing kernals ; Radial basis function networks ; Gaussian processes -- Sparse Kernel machines. Maximum margin classifiers ; Relevance vector machines -- Graphical models. Bayesian networks ; Conditional independence ; Markov random fields ; Inference in graphical models -- Mixture models and EM. K-means clustering ; Mixtures of Gaussians ; An alternative view of EM ; The EM algorithm in general -- Approximate inference. Variational inference ; Illustration : variational mixture of Gaussians ; Variational linear regression ; Exponential family distributions ; Local variational methods ; Variational logistic regression ; Expectation propagation -- Sampling methods. Basic sampling algorithms ; Markov chain Monte Carlo ; Gibbs sampling ; Slice sampling ; The hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm ; Estimating the partition function -- Continuous latent variables. Principal component analysis ; Probabilistic PCA ; Kernel PCA ; Nonlinear latent variable models -- Sequential data. Markoc models ; Hidden Markov models ; Linear dynamical systems -- Combining models. Bayesian model averaging ; Committees ; Boosting ; Tree-based models ; Conditional mixture models -- Data sets -- Probability distributions -- Properties of matrices -- Calculus of variations -- Lagrange multipliers.

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Pattern perception.
Pattern recognition systems.
Machine learning.

Q327 / .B52 2006