Zehra Cataltepe
cataltepe.com
(now at Istanbul Technical University)
Postdoctorate member of technical staff,
Statistics and Data Mining Dept, Bell Labs Research
Ph.D., Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, 1998
"Incorporating Test Inputs into Learning, and Augmented Objective Functions"
M.S., Computer Science, California Institute of Technology, 1994
"The Scheduling Problem in Learning from Hints"
B.S. Bilkent University, Ankara,
Turkey, 1991
Research Interests
- Incorporating test inputs or other input information into learning.
- Regularization methods, early stopping, cross validation.
- Learning from examples and hints, statistical learning theory.
- Machine learning applications (speech, video, image recognition).
Publications
- (1998) Zehra Cataltepe,
"Incorporating Input Information into Learning and Augmented Objective Functions",
Ph.D. Thesis, California Institute of Techology.
abstract, thesis
available upon request.
- (1998) Zehra Cataltepe, Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa and Malik Magdon-Ismail,
"No Free Lunch for Early Stopping",
accepted to
Neural Computation.
- (1997) Zehra Cataltepe and Malik Magdon-Ismail,
"Incorporating Test Inputs into Learning",
Proceedings of the
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10 .
abstract,
postscript (194K).
- (1994) Zehra Cataltepe and Yaser S. Abu-Mostafa,
"Estimating Learning Performance Using Hints",
Proceedings of the 1993 Connectionist Models Summer School, M. Mozer et. al.
(Eds.), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Hillsdale, NJ. pp.380-386.
abstract,
postscript (433K).
- (1994) Zehra Cataltepe,
"The Scheduling Problem in Learning from Hints,
M.S. Thesis, California Institute of Techology.
abstract,
postscript (675K).
(also available as
Caltech-CS-TR-94-09)
- (1997) Eric Bax, Zehra Cataltepe and Joseph Sill,
"The Central Classifier Bound -- A New Error Bound for the Classifier Chosen
by Early Stopping",
IEEE PACRIM, Victoria, B.C. 1997 conference proceedings.
postscript (322K).
(also available as
Caltech-CS-TR-97-08)
- (1991) Zehra Kok and Varol Akman,
"Field: A Data Type for Automated Perception in Go",
Proceedings of International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences
(ISCIS-VI), Turkey, Elsevier Science Publishers, pp 641-650.
abstract, hard copy
available upon request.
- (1997) Ridvan A. Sahan, Don C. Albin, Nihal K. Sahan and Zehra Cataltepe,
"Modelling Of Transitional Air Flow System In A Channel Using Artificial Neural
Networks",
Sixth Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks (
TAINN 97 ).
Last modified: 9/29/98