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Ryan Michael Rifkin,

an American mathematician and computer scientist with expertise in machine learning, affiliated with Google Inc. [1], Mountain View, California and previously at Honda Research Institute, Boston, and the MIT Center for Biological and Computational Learning. He holds a Ph.D. from MIT on machine learning in 2002 [2]. In the early 90s, along with primary author Bradley Kuszmaul, Ryan Rifkin co-authored the massive parallel chess program StarTech which competed the ACM 1993 running on a CM-5 [3] [4]. He optimized some move generation routines in assembly language, and cleaned up the parallel work-stealing code.

Selected Publications#

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1998 …#

• Massimiliano Pontil, Ryan Rifkin, Theodoros Evgeniou (1998). From Regression to Classification in Support Vector Machines. A.I. Memo 1649, MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab, CiteSeerX
• Ryan Rifkin (1998). The Static Stochastic Ground-Holding Problem. Master’s thesis, MIT

2000 …#

• Ryan Rifkin (2002). Everything Old Is New Again: A Fresh Look at Historical Approaches to Machine Learning. Ph.D thesis, MIT, pdf
• Ryan Rifkin, Aldebaro Klautau (2004). In Defense of One-Vs-All Classification. Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 5, pdf
• Ross A. Lippert, Ryan Rifkin (2006). Infinite-σ Limits For Tikhonov Regularization. Journal of Machine Learning Research, Vol. 7, pdf [7]
• Ryan Rifkin (2007). Introduction to Fenchel Duality for Machine Learning. slides [8]
• Ryan Rifkin (2007). Fenchel Duality for Machine Learning, Part II: A Bit More Theory. slides
• Ryan Rifkin, Ross A. Lippert (2007). Value Regularization and Fenchel Duality. Journal of Machine Learning Research
• Ryan Rifkin, Ross A. Lippert (2007). Notes on Regularized Least-Squares. Technical Report, pdf
• Ryan Rifkin (2007). Regularized Least Squares. MIT Course, slides as pdf
• Ryan Rifkin (2009). Multiclass Classification. MIT Course, pdf

External Links#

• Ryan M. Rifkin - Google Scholar Citations
• Ryan M. Rifkin | Google Inc., Mountain View | Google

References#

1. ↑ Ryan M. Rifkin | Google Inc., Mountain View | Google
2. ↑ Ryan M. Rifkin (2002). Everything Old Is New Again: A Fresh Look at Historical Approaches to Machine Learning. Ph. D thesis, MIT
3. ↑ The 23rd ACM International Computer Chess Championship from The Computer History Museum, pdf
4. ↑ Re: Hash tables—-Clash!!!-What happens next? by Albert Gower, rec.games.chess, March 19, 1994
5. ↑ Bradley C. Kuszmaul (1994). Synchronized MIMD Computing. Ph. D. thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT, pdf, pp. 130, 6.6 How Time is Spent in StarTech
6. ↑ dblp: Ryan M. Rifkin
7. ↑ Tikhonov regularization from Wikipedia named for Andrey N. Tikhonov
8. ↑ Fenchel’s duality theorem from Wikipedia named after Werner Fenchel

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