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An optimization problem on the sphere

Machine Learning 2008-05-16 v1 Computational Geometry

Abstract

We prove existence and uniqueness of the minimizer for the average geodesic distance to the points of a geodesically convex set on the sphere. This implies a corresponding existence and uniqueness result for an optimal algorithm for halfspace learning, when data and target functions are drawn from the uniform distribution.

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@article{arxiv.0805.2362,
  title  = {An optimization problem on the sphere},
  author = {Andreas Maurer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0805.2362},
  year   = {2008}
}
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