Paper No . 171 A unified framework for Regularization Networks and Support Vector Machines
Regularization Networks and Support Vector Machines are techniques for solving certain problems of learning from examples – in particular the regression problem of approximating a multivariate function from sparse data. We present both formulations in a unified framework, namely in the context of Vapnik’s theory of statistical learning which provides a general foundation for the learning problem, combining functional analysis and statistics. Copyright c © Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998 This report describers research done at the Center for Biological & Computational Learning and the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. This research was sponsored by the National Science Foundation under contract No. IIS-9800032, the Office of Naval Research under contract No. N0001493-1-0385 and contract No. N00014-95-1-0600. Partial support was also provided by Daimler-Benz AG, Eastman Kodak, Siemens Corporate Research, Inc., ATR and AT&T.