Large scale optimization methods for metric and kernel learning
Prateek Jain · Texas ScholarWorks (Texas Digital Library) · 2009
It is remarkable that even a modest enterprise such as this thesis, is impossible without contributions from so many people and proper alignment of so many factors.So, I begin by thanking almighty God for making it all work out.I would like to thank my thesis advisor Prof. Inderjit S. Dhillon for simply being a great advisor and helping me out in possibly the toughest situation of my life.I hope his passion for research and ability to think clearly and objectively about a problem have rubbed off, at least partially, on me also.