Learning Theory

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference on Learning Theory, COLT 2007, held in San Diego, CA, USA in June 2007.
The 41 revised full papers presented together with 5 articles on open problems and 2 invited lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 92 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics and are organized in topical sections on unsupervised, semisupervised and active learning, statistical learning theory, inductive inference, regularized learning, kernel methods, SVM, online and reinforcement learning, learning algorithms and limitations on learning, dimensionality reduction, other approaches, and open problems.