Kernel-based Data Fusion for Machine Learning: Methods and Applications in Bioinformatics and Text Mining (Studies in Computational Intelligence (345))

'Data fusion problems arise frequently in many different fields. This book provides a specific introduction to data fusion problems using support vector machines. In the first part, this book begins with a brief survey of additive models and Rayleigh quotient objectives in machine learning, and then introduces kernel fusion as the additive expansion of support vector machines in the dual problem. The second part presents several novel kernel fusion algorithms and some real applications in supervised and unsupervised learning. The last part of the book substantiates the value of the proposed theories and algorithms in MerKator, an open software to identify disease relevant genes based on the integration of heterogeneous genomic data sources in multiple species. The topics presented in this book are meant for researchers or students who use support vector machines. Several topics addressed in the book may also be interesting to computational biologists who want to tackle data fusion challenges in real applications. The background required of the reader is a good knowledge of data mining, machine learning and linear algebra. Show'--Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages - Introduction....Pages 1-26 Rayleigh Quotient-Type Problems in Machine Learning....Pages 27-37 L n -norm Multiple Kernel Learning and Least Squares Support Vector Machines....Pages 39-88 Optimized Data Fusion for Kernel k -means Clustering....Pages 89-107 Multi-view Text Mining for Disease Gene Prioritization and Clustering....Pages 109-144 Optimized Data Fusion for k -means Laplacian Clustering....Pages 145-172 Weighted Multiple Kernel Canonical Correlation....Pages 173-190 Cross-Species Candidate Gene Prioritization with MerKator....Pages 191-205 Conclusion....Pages 207-208 Back Matter....Pages -