Learning Theory [electronic resource] : 17th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2004, Banff, Canada, July 1-4, 2004, Proceedings /

Economics and Game Theory -- Towards a Characterization of Polynomial Preference Elicitation with Value Queries in Combinatorial Auctions -- Graphical Economics -- Deterministic Calibration and Nash Equilibrium -- Reinforcement Learning for Average Reward Zero-Sum Games -- OnLine Learning -- Polynomial Time Prediction Strategy with Almost Optimal Mistake Probability -- Minimizing Regret with Label Efficient Prediction -- Regret Bounds for Hierarchical Classification with Linear-Threshold Functions -- Online Geometric Optimization in the Bandit Setting Against an Adaptive Adversary -- Inductive Inference -- Learning Classes of Probabilistic Automata -- On the Learnability of E-pattern Languages over Small Alphabets -- Replacing Limit Learners with Equally Powerful One-Shot Query Learners -- Probabilistic Models -- Concentration Bounds for Unigrams Language Model -- Inferring Mixtures of Markov Chains -- Boolean Function Learning -- PExact = Exact Learning -- Learning a Hidden Graph Using O(log n) Queries Per Edge -- Toward Attribute Efficient Learning of Decision Lists and Parities -- Empirical Processes -- Learning Over Compact Metric Spaces -- A Function Representation for Learning in Banach Spaces -- Local Complexities for Empirical Risk Minimization -- Model Selection by Bootstrap Penalization for Classification -- MDL -- Convergence of Discrete MDL for Sequential Prediction -- On the Convergence of MDL Density Estimation -- Suboptimal Behavior of Bayes and MDL in Classification Under Misspecification -- Generalisation I -- Learning Intersections of Halfspaces with a Margin -- A General Convergence Theorem for the Decomposition Method -- Generalisation II -- Oracle Bounds and Exact Algorithm for Dyadic Classification Trees -- An Improved VC Dimension Bound for Sparse Polynomials -- A New PAC Bound forIntersection-Closed Concept Classes -- Clustering and Distributed Learning -- A Framework for Statistical Clustering with a Constant Time Approximation Algorithms for K-Median Clustering -- Data Dependent Risk Bounds for Hierarchical Mixture of Experts Classifiers -- Consistency in Models for Communication Constrained Distributed Learning -- On the Convergence of Spectral Clustering on Random Samples: The Normalized Case -- Boosting -- Performance Guarantees for Regularized Maximum Entropy Density Estimation -- Learning Monotonic Linear Functions -- Boosting Based on a Smooth Margin -- Kernels and Probabilities -- Bayesian Networks and Inner Product Spaces -- An Inequality for Nearly Log-Concave Distributions with Applications to Learning -- Bayes and Tukey Meet at the Center Point -- Sparseness Versus Estimating Conditional Probabilities: Some Asymptotic Results -- Kernels and Kernel Matrices -- A Statistical Mechanics Analysis of Gram Matrix Eigenvalue Spectra -- Statistical Properties of Kernel Principal Component Analysis -- Kernelizing Sorting, Permutation, and Alignment for Minimum Volume PCA -- Regularization and Semi-supervised Learning on Large Graphs -- Open Problems -- Perceptron-Like Performance for Intersections of Halfspaces -- The Optimal PAC Algorithm -- The Budgeted Multi-armed Bandit Problem.