Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15 (NIPS 2002)
Jason Weston, Olivier Chapelle, Vladimir Vapnik, André Elisseeff, Bernhard Schölkopf
We consider the learning problem of finding a dependency between a general class of objects and another, possibly different, general class of objects. The objects can be for example: vectors, images, strings, trees or graphs. Such a task is made possible by employing similarity measures in both input and output spaces using ker(cid:173) nel functions, thus embedding the objects into vector spaces. We experimentally validate our approach on several tasks: mapping strings to strings, pattern recognition, and reconstruction from par(cid:173) tial images.