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Introduction: Four Periods in the Research of the Learning Problem

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The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory

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In the history of research of the learning problem one can extract four periods that can be characterized by four bright events:

  1. (i)

    Constructing the first learning machines,

  2. (ii)

    constructing the fundamentals of the theory,

  3. (iii)

    constructing neural networks,

  4. (iv)

    constructing the alternatives to neural networks.

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Vapnik, V.N. (2000). Introduction: Four Periods in the Research of the Learning Problem. In: The Nature of Statistical Learning Theory. Statistics for Engineering and Information Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3264-1_1

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