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R. Dietrich, M. Opper, and H. Sompolinsky (1999)
Statistical Mechanics of Support Vector Networks
Physical Review Letters, 82(14):2975–2978.
Using methods of statistical physics, we investigate the generalization performance of SVMs. For nonlinear classification rules, the generalization error saturates on a plateau when the number of examples is too small to properly estimate the coefficients of the nonlinear part.