Feature Extraction: Foundations and Applications

Everyone loves a good competition. As I write this, two billion fans are eagerly anticipating the 2006 World Cup. Meanwhile, a fan base that is somewhat smaller (but presumably includes you, dear reader) is equally eager to read all about the results of the NIPS 2003 Feature Selection Challenge, contained herein. Fans of Radford Neal and Jianguo Zhang (or of Bayesian neural n- works and Dirichlet diffusion trees) are gloating “I told you so” and looking for proof that their win was not a fl...