Uma abordagem de predição estruturada baseada no modelo perceptron

Abstract

The theory of supervised learning has significantly advanced in recent decades. Several methods are widely used for solutions of many problems, such as expert systems for answers to true/false, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Incremental Margin Algorithm (IMA). In order to increase the margin of separation, as well as its multi-class versions, in addition to the artificial neural networks which allow complex input data. But how to solve tasks that require answers as complex as the questions? Such responses may consist of several interrelated decisions to be considered one by one to arrive at a satisfactory and globally consistent solution. Will be seen throughout the thesis, that there are problems of relevant interest represented by these requirements. One question that naturally arises is the need to deal with the exponential explosion of possible answers. As a alternative, we have found through the construction of models that compress and capture certain structural properties of the problem: sequential correlations, temporal constraints, space, etc. These structured models include, among others, graphical models, such as Markov networks and combinatorial optimization problems, such as weighted matchings, graph cuts and data clusters with similarity and correlation patterns. This thesis formulates, presents and discusses efficient online strategies for structured prediction based on the principle of separation of classes, derived from the Perceptron and defines a set of efficient supervised learning algorithms compared to other approaches. Also are performed and described two experimental applications: the costs prediction of relevant features on maps and the prediction of the probabilistic parameters for the generating Markov graphs. These applications emphasize the importance of the proposed approach.