Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm

Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm (MIRA)^[1] is a machine learning algorithm, an online algorithm for multiclass classification problems. It is designed to learn a set of parameters (vector or matrix) by processing all the given training examples one-by-one and updating the parameters according to each training example, so that the current training example is classified correctly with a margin against incorrect classifications at least as large as their loss.^[2] The change of the parameters is kept as small as possible.

A two-class version called binary MIRA^[1] simplifies the algorithm by not requiring the solution of a quadratic programming problem (see below). When used in an one-vs.-all configuration, binary MIRA can be extended to a multiclass learner that approximates full MIRA, but may be faster to train.

The flow of the algorithm^[3]^[4] looks as follows:

Template:Algorithm-begin

  Input: Training examples  $T=\{x_{i},y_{i}\}$ 
  Output: Set of parameters  $w$

   $i$  ← 0,  $w^{(0)}$  ← 0
  for  $n$  ← 1 to  $N$ 
    for  $t$  ← 1 to  $|T|$ 
       $w^{(i+1)}$  ← update  $w^{(i)}$  according to  $\{x_{t},y_{t}\}$ 
       $i$  ←  $i+1$ 
    end for
  end for
  return  ${\frac {\sum _{j=1}^{N\times |T|}w^{(j)}}{N\times |T|}}$

Template:Algorithm-end

The update step is then formalized as a quadratic programming^[2] problem: Find $min\|w^{(i+1)}-w^{(i)}\|$ , so that $score(x_{t},y_{t})-score(x_{t},y')\geq L(y_{t},y')\ \forall y'$ , i.e. the score of the current correct training $y$ must be greater than the score of any other possible $y'$ by at least the loss (number of errors) of that $y'$ in comparison to $y$ .

References

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↑ Watanabe, T. et al (2007): Online Large Margin Training for Statistical Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 764–773.
↑ Bohnet, B. (2009): Efficient Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Structures. Proceedings of Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Boulder, 67-72.

External links

adMIRAble - MIRA implementation in C++
Miralium - MIRA implementation in Java
MIRA implementation for Mahout in Hadoop

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[3] Watanabe, T. et al (2007): Online Large Margin Training for Statistical Machine Translation. In: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, 764–773.

[4] Bohnet, B. (2009): Efficient Parsing of Syntactic and Semantic Dependency Structures. Proceedings of Conference on Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), Boulder, 67-72.

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Margin Infused Relaxed Algorithm

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