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Winnow Algorithm is a [[category::method | ]] for learning a linear classifier/decision hyper-plane from labeled examples. It scales well to high dimensions especially when many of the dimensions are irrelevant. Thus it finds good use for text classification problems using a bag-of-words feature representation.
 
Winnow Algorithm is a [[category::method | ]] for learning a linear classifier/decision hyper-plane from labeled examples. It scales well to high dimensions especially when many of the dimensions are irrelevant. Thus it finds good use for text classification problems using a bag-of-words feature representation.
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== Relevant Papers ==
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# [http://www.springerlink.com/content/j0k7t38567325716/?MUD=MP  Nick Littlestone (1988). "Learning Quickly When Irrelevant Attributes Abound: A New Linear-threshold Algorithm", Machine Learning]
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# [Littlestone, Nicholas. "Mistake bounds and logarithmic linear-threshold learning algorithms." (1990).]

Revision as of 06:08, 6 November 2012

Winnow Algorithm is a for learning a linear classifier/decision hyper-plane from labeled examples. It scales well to high dimensions especially when many of the dimensions are irrelevant. Thus it finds good use for text classification problems using a bag-of-words feature representation.

Relevant Papers

  1. Nick Littlestone (1988). "Learning Quickly When Irrelevant Attributes Abound: A New Linear-threshold Algorithm", Machine Learning
  2. [Littlestone, Nicholas. "Mistake bounds and logarithmic linear-threshold learning algorithms." (1990).]