Ethem ALPAYDIN

Professor in the
Department of Computer Engineering
Bogaziçi University.

Publications, Talks, Other Writing, Courses, Short Biography, Details

Introduction to Machine Learning, 2e

The MIT Press, February 2010

ISBN-10: 0-262-01243-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01243-0

Yapay Öğrenme

Turkish language edition, translated by the author

Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, April 2011

ISBN: 978-6-054-23849-1

Introduction to Machine Learning

The MIT Press, October 2004

ISBN-10: 0-262-01211-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01211-9 2010

Maschinelles Lernen

German language edition, translated by Simone Linke

Oldenbourg Verlag, May 2008

ISBN-13: 978-3-486-58114-0

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机器学习导论

Chinese language edition, translated by Ming Fan

Huazhang Press, June 2009

ISBN-13: 978-7-111-26524-5

Publications

A. Ulaş, O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2012) “Eigenclassifiers for Combining Correlated Classifiers,” Information Sciences, 187, 109-120.
A. Ulaş, O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2012) “Cost-Conscious Comparison of Supervised Learning Algorithms over Multiple Data Sets,” Pattern Recognition, 45(4), 1772-1781.
M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın (2011) “Multiple Kernel Learning Algorithms,” Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12, 2211-2268.
E. Alpaydın (2011) “Machine Learning,” Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 3(3), 195-203.
O. T. Yıldız, Ö. Aslan, E. Alpaydın (2011) “Multivariate Statistical Tests for Comparing Classification Algorithms,” Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN (LION) conference, C.A.Coello Coello (Ed.), LNCS 6683, 1-15, Springer.
O. Kurşun, E. Alpaydın, O. Favorov (2011) “Canonical Correlation Analysis using Within-Class Coupling,” Pattern Recognition Letters, 32, 134-144.
M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın (2011) "Regularizing Multiple Kernel Learning using Response Surface Methodology," Pattern Recognition, 44, 159-171.
C. Zor, B. Yanıkoğlu, T. Windeatt, E. Alpaydın (2010) “FLIP-ECOC: a greedy optimization of the ECOC matrix”, 25th International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences (ISCIS 2010), London, UK
M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın (2010) "Localized Multiple Kernel Regression," ICPR 2010, Istanbul.
O. Kurşun, E. Alpaydın (2010) "Canonical Correlation Analysis for Multiview Semisupervised Feature Extraction," ICAISC 2010, Zakopane Poland, LNAI 6113, Springer.
M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın (2010) "Supervised Learning of Local Projection Kernels,” Neurocomputing, 73 (10-12), 1694-1703.
M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın (2010) "Cost-Conscious Multiple Kernel Learning,” Pattern Recognition Letters, 31(9), 959-965.
A.Özen, M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın, T. Haliloğlu (2009) "Machine Learning Integration for Predicting the Effect of Single Amino Acid Substitutions on Protein Stability,” BMC Structural Biology, 9(66).
M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın (2009) "Multiple Kernel Machines Using Localized Kernels," Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics (PRIB’09), Sheffield, England, September.
O. Aran, O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2009) "An Incremental Framework Based on Cross-Validation for Estimating the Architecture of a Multilayer Perceptron," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 23(2), 159-190.
A. Ulaş, M. Semerci, O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2009) "Incremental Construction of Classifier and Discriminant Ensembles," Information Sciences, 179, 1298-1318.
M. Gönen, E. Alpaydın (2008) "Localized Multiple Kernel Learning," ICML'08 , Helsinki, Finland, July, 352-359.
M. Gönen, A. G. Tanuğur, E. Alpaydın (2008) "Multiclass Posterior Probability Support Vector Machines," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 19(1), 130-139.
B. Gökberk, M. O. Irfanoğlu, L. Akarun, E. Alpaydın (2007) "Learning the Best Subset of Local Features for Face Recognition," Pattern Recognition, 40(5), 1520-1532.
O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2006) "Ordering and Finding the Best of K>2 Supervised Learning Algorithms," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 28(3), 392-402.
C. Demir, E. Alpaydın (2005) "Cost-Conscious Classifier Ensembles," Pattern Recognition Letters, 26(14), 2206-2214.
O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2005) "Model Selection in Omnivariate Decision Trees," ECML'05, Porto Portugal, October 2005.
O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2005) "Linear Discriminant Trees," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 19(3), 323-353.
A A Salah, E Alpaydın (2004) "Incremental Mixtures of Factor Analyzers," ICPR'04, Cambridge UK, August 2004.
B Gökberk, M O Irfanoğlu, L Akarun, E Alpaydın (2003) "Selection of Location, Frequency, and Orientation Parameters of 2D Gabor Wavelets for Face Recognition," Summer School on Biometrics, Italy, June 2003.
O. Aran, E. Alpaydın (2003) "An Incremental Neural Network Construction Algorithm for Training Multilayer Perceptrons," ICANN'03, Istanbul, June 2003.
Z. Barutcuoğlu, E. Alpaydın (2003) "A Comparison of Model Aggregation Methods for Regression,'' Springer LNCS Vol 2714, ICANN'03, Istanbul, June 2003.
A. Baraldi, E. Alpaydın (2002) "Constructive Feedforward ART Clustering Network - Part I," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13(3), 645-661.
A. Baraldi, E. Alpaydın (2002) "Constructive Feedforward ART Clustering Network - Part II," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 13(3), 662-677.
A. A. Salah, E. Alpaydın, L. Akarun (2002) "A Selective Attention-Based Method for Visual Pattern Recognition with Application to Handwritten Digit Recognition and Face Recognition," IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 24(3), 420-425 (Fig 1 erroneous in pdf; get the correct Fig here).
O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2001) "Omnivariate Decision Trees," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 12(6), 1539-1546.
F. Alimoğlu, E. Alpaydın (2001) "Combining Multiple Representations for Pen-based Handwritten Digit Recognition," ELEKTRIK: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 9(1), 1-12.
F. Köksal, E. Alpaydın, G. Dündar (2001) "Weight Quantization for Multilayer Perceptrons using Soft Weight Sharing," Springer Vol LNCS 2130, ICANN'01, Vienna, Austria, August 2001.
A. A. Salah, E. Alpaydın, L. Akarun (2001) "A Selective Attention Based Method for Visual Pattern Recognition," 23rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 2001.
E. Alpaydın (2001) "Assessing and Comparing Classification Algorithms," ISAS2001, Havana, Cuba, March 2001.
E. Alpaydın, C Kaynak, F Alimoğlu (2000) "Cascading Multiple Classifiers and Representations for Optical and Pen-Based Handwritten Digit Recognition," IWFHR, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 2000.
C. Kaynak, E. Alpaydın (2000) "MultiStage Cascading of Multiple Classifiers: One Man's Noise is Another Man's Data," ICML2K, Stanford Univ, USA, June 2000.
O. T. Yıldız, E. Alpaydın (2000) "Linear Discriminant Trees," ICML2K, Stanford Univ, USA, June 2000.
E. Alpaydın (1999) "Combined 5x2cv F Test for Comparing Supervised Classification Learning Algorithms," Neural Computation, 11(8), 1885-1892.
I. Bayraktaroğlu, A. S. Öğrenci, G. Dündar, S. Balkır, E. Alpaydın (1999) "ANNSyS: An Analog Neural Network Synthesis System," Neural Networks, 12(2), 325-338.
E. Alpaydın, Ed. (1999) Special Issue on Engineering of Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence in Engineering, "Guest Editorial," 13(4).
E. Alpaydın, E. Mayoraz (1999) "Learning Error-Correcting Output Codes from Data," ICANN'99, Edinburgh, UK, September 1999.
E. Mayoraz, E. Alpaydın (1999) "Support Vector Machines for Multi-Class Classification," IWANN'99, Alicante, Spain, June 1999.
E. Alpaydın, C Kaynak (1998) "Cascading Classifiers," Kybernetika, 34(4), 369-374.
E. Alpaydın (1998) "Soft Vector Quantization and the EM Algorithm," Neural Networks, 11(3), 467-477.
E. Alpaydın (1998) " Techniques for Combining Multiple Learners," Engineering of Intelligent Systems EIS'98, Teneriffe, Spain, February 1998.
E. Alpaydın F. Gürgen (1998) " Comparison of Statistical and Neural Classifiers and Their Applications to Optical Character Recognition and Speech Classification," Neural Network Systems Techniques and Applications vol 5, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition, C.T. Leondes (Ed.) Academic Press, 61-88.
E. Alpaydın (1997) "Voting over Multiple Condensed Nearest Neighbors," Artificial Intelligence Review, 11, 115-132 (Special Issue on Lazy Learning).
F. Alimoğlu, E. Alpaydın (1997) "Combining Multiple Representations and Classifiers for Pen-based Handwritten Digit Recognition," Fourth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 97), Ulm, Germany, August 1997.
E. Alpaydın, I. K. Altinel, N. Aras (1996) "Parametric Distance Functions vs Nonparametric Neural Networks for Estimating Road Travel Distances," European Journal on Operational Research (Special Issue on Neural Networks), 93(2), 230-243.
E. Alpaydın, M. I. Jordan (1996) "Local Linear Perceptrons for Classification," IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, 7(3), 788-792.
E. Alpaydın (1996) " Selective Attention for Handwritten Digit Recognition," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, D.S. Touretzky, M.C. Mozer, M.E. Hasselmo (Eds.) MIT Press, 771-777.
E. Alpaydın, F. Gürgen (1995) "Comparison of Kernel Estimators, Perceptrons, and Radial-Basis Functions for OCR and Speech Classification," Neural Computing and Applications, 3, 38-49.
F. Gürgen, R. Alpaydın, U. Ünluakın, E. Alpaydın (1994) "Distributed and Local Neural Classifiers for Phoneme Recognition," Pattern Recognition Letters, 15, 1111-1118.
E. Alpaydın, S. Aratma, M. Yağcı (1994) "Recognition of Handwritten Digits using Neural Networks," ELEKTRIK: Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, 2, 20-31.
E. Alpaydın (1994) "GAL: Networks that Grow when they Learn and Shrink when they Forget," International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence , 8, 391-414.
E. Alpaydın (1993) “Multiple Networks for Function Learning,'' IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks, pp. I: 9--14, March, San Francisco CA USA.
E. Alpaydın (1992) “Multiple Neural Networks and Weighted Voting,'' 11th IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 29--32, August, The Hague The Netherlands.

Talk/Tutorial

E Alpaydın (2009) “Sınıflandırıcılarda Hata Ölçülmesi ve Karşılaştırılması için İstatistiksel Yöntemler,” SİU 2009 Eğitim Semineri (in Turkish)
E Alpaydın (2010) "Design and Analysis of Machine Learning Experiments" Tutorial in AERFAISS 2010, Benicassim, Spain (Matlab codes).

Other Writing (in Turkish)

E Alpaydın (2010) "Yapay Edebiyat" Bilişim Dergisi, Sayı 121, Mayıs 2010.
E Alpaydin (2002) "Zeka Taklit Edilebilir Mi?" Hayalet Gemi, Sayı 65, Mart 2002.
E Alpaydin (2000) "Zeki Veri Madenciligi," Bilişim 2000 Eğitim Semineri, (Sunus).

Courses (Spring 2012)

Past Courses

Short Biography

Ethem ALPAYDIN received his BSc from the Department of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University in 1987 and the degree of Docteur es Sciences from Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1990. He did his postdoctoral work at the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley in 1991 and afterwards was appointed Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering of Bogazici University. He became Associate Professor in 1996 and Professor in 2002 in the same department. As visiting researcher, he worked at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences of MIT in 1994, the International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley in 1997 and IDIAP, Switzerland in 1998. He was a Fulbright Senior Scholar in 1997/1998 and received the Research Excellence Award from the Bogazici University Foundation in 1998 and 2008, the Young Scientist Award from the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 2001 and the Scientific Encouragement Award from the Turkish Scientific and Technical Research Council in 2002. His book Introduction to Machine Learning was published by The MIT Press in October 2004. Its German edition was published by Oldenbourg Verlag in May 2008, and its Chinese edition was published by Huazhang Press in June 2009. Introduction to Machine Learning, second edition was published by The MIT Press in February 2010 and its Turkish edition was published by Boğaziçi University Press in April 2011. He is a senior member of the IEEE, an editorial board member of The Computer Journal (Oxford University Press) and an associate editor of Pattern Recognition (Elsevier).

Email: alpaydin AT boun.edu.tr
Phone: +90 (212) 359-6862
Fax: +90 (212) 287-2461
Postal address:
Ethem Alpaydin, Department of Computer Engineering, Bogazici University, TR-34342 Istanbul Turkey