Which machine learning algorithms (besides SVM's) use the structural risk minimization principle?

asked May 22 '12 at 15:59

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If I'm not mistaken, any of the lp (e.g. l2 or l1 or l0) regularization algorithms constitute SRM, because they nest the hypothesis space based upon the model complexity.

answered May 22 '12 at 21:21

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+1 Could you elaborate a bit more on these regularization algorithms and the differences between l2, l1 and l0?

(May 23 '12 at 07:18) classifire
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@John: L_p spaces dictate how errors are penalized. The higher p is, the more outliers contribute to the error.

(May 23 '12 at 18:39) Emre S
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l2 is easy to optimize. It gives good generalization. l1 is trickier to optimize. It gives good generalization and sparse models. l0 is very hard to optimize. It gives sparse models. I am not sure how well it generalizes in practice.

(May 28 '12 at 17:47) Joseph Turian ♦♦
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