24th February 2003 - SMO and SVMs
Chu Wei will cover SMO and SVMs. Zoubin will also cover some material on SVM's and possibly discuss barrier methods in quadratic programming.
Readings:- Iyengar's class notes on nonlinear optimizaton.
- Chu Wei's notes on SMO.
- Alex Smola's ICANN tutorial slides on SVMs.
Contact Iain if you have problems obtaining the reading.