Convergence of stochastic gradient descent for non-smooth problems is a known result. For completeness, wereproduce and adapt ausual proof toour setting. Let us denote byF the class of functions fromX toY we are going to work with. Assumption 1 states that we have a well-specified modelF to estimate the median,i.e. Let us begin by controlling the estimation error.

From now on, we can therefore focus on proving (24).

The paper examines consistency of surrogate losses for multiclass prediction. The authors present their results using the formalism of structured prediction. Alas, there is no direct connection or exploitation of the separability of structured prediction losses. The paper is overly notated and variables are frequently overloaded. I got the feeling that the authors are trying to look mathematically fancy at the expense of readability.

Stéphan Clémençon LTCI UMR Telecom ParisTech/CNRS No. 5141 - Institut Telecom Motivation Pairwise dissimilarity-based clustering techniques are widely used to segment a dataset into groups, such that data points in the same group are more similar to each other than to those in other groups. The empirical criteria these algorithms seek to optimize are of the form of U-statistics of degree two. We propose to analyze their performance, using recent advances in the theory of U-processes. The statistical framework considered permits to establish learning rates for the excess of clustering risk and to design model selection tools as well. Optimal partitions are those that minimize W (P). Pairwise-based clustering can be cast in terms of minimization of a U-statistic over a class Π of partition candidates.

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