• Title: Learning Theory from First Principles
• Author(s) Francis Bach
• Publisher: The MIT Press (December 24, 2024); eBook (Final Draft, Creative Commons Licensed, 2025)
• License(s): Creative Commons License (CC)
• Hardcover: 496 pages
• eBook: PDF
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0262049449
• ISBN-13: 978-0262049443
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Book Description

A comprehensive and cutting-edge introduction to the foundations and modern applications of learning theory. This book presents the foundations and latest advances of learning theory for graduate students as well as researchers who want to acquire a basic mathematical understanding of the most widely used machine learning architectures.

• Francis Bach is a researcher at Inria where he leads the machine learning team which is part of the Computer Science department at Ecole Normale Supérieure. His research focuses on machine learning and optimization.

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