Isabelle Guyon's publications

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Selected articles and patents from 1992 to 2005 (for other, see other and older publications).


Challenges:
Result Analysis of the NIPS 2003 Feature Selection Challenge
        Isabelle Guyon, Steve Gunn,  Asa Ben Hur, and Gideon Dror
        Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 17,
        Lawrence K. Saul, Yair Weiss and Léon Bottou, Eds., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 545-552,
        2005.
        [abstract] [pdf][supplementary material]
        See also the edited book containing the data, papers of the best challengers and tutorials.

Competitive baseline methods set new standards for the NIPS 2003 feature selection benchmark
        Isabelle Guyon, Jiwen Li, Theodor Mader, Patrick A. Pletscher, Georg Schneider and Markus Uhr
        Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 28, Issue 12, 1 September 2007, Pages 1438-1444. [pdf]
        [abstract] [pdf of large TM]

Performance Prediction Challenge
        Isabelle Guyon, Amir Reza Saffari Azar Alamdari, Gideon Dror and Joachim Buhmann
        In Proceedings IEEE/INNS conference IJCNN 2006, Vancouver July 16-21,
        2006.
        [pdf][supplementary material]


The first SVM papers:
An training algorithm for optimal margin classifiers. (<-- where SVMs were first introduced)
B. Boser, I. Guyon, and V. Vapnik.
In Fifth Annual Workshop on Computational Learning Theory, pages 144--152, Pittsburgh, ACM.
1992
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Automatic capacity tuning of very large VC-dimension classifiers.
I. Guyon, B. Boser, and V. Vapnik.
In S. Hanson et al., editor, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5 (NIPS 92) , pages 147--155, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann.
1993
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Discovering informative patterns and data cleaning.
I. Guyon, N. Matic , and V. Vapnik.
In U.M. Fayyad, G. Piatetsky-Shapiro, P. Smyth, and R. Uthurusamy, editors, Advances in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, pages 181--203. MIT Press.
1996
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Pattern recognition system using support vectors. (<-- the SVM patent)
B. Boser, I. Guyon, and V. Vapnik.
US Patent 5,649,068.
1997
[ abstract ]

Bioinformatics:
Gene selection for cancer classification using support vector machines.
I. Guyon, J. Weston, S. Barnhill, and V. Vapnik.
Machine Learning, Vol. 46, pp. 389--422
2002
[ abstract ] [ pdf ] [ERRATUM]
A stability based method for discovering structure in clustered data.
A. Ben-Hur, A. Elisseeff and I. Guyon.
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, pp. 6-17
2002
[ abstract ] [ pdf ]
Statistical learning and kernel methods in bioinformatics.
B. Scholkopf, I. Guyon, and J. Weston.
In P. Frasconi and R. Shamir, editors, Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Methods in Bioinformatics, pages 1--21. IOS Press.
2003

[ abstract ] [ pdf ]

Detecting Stable Clusters Using Principal Component Analysis.
Asa Ben-Hur and Isabelle Guyon.
In Methods in Molecular Biology, M.J. Brownstein and A. Kohodursky (eds.) Humana press,  pp. 159-182.
2003

[ abstract ] [ pdf ]
 

Multivariate Non-Linear Feature Selection with Kernel Methods. 
Isabelle Guyon, Hans-Marcus Bitter, Zulfikar Ahmed, Michael Brown, and Jonathan Heller.
Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Volume 164, Jan 2005, Pages 313 - 326, Springer.

[abstract][pdf]


An automated,sheathless capillary electrophoresis-mass spectrometry platform for discovery of biomarkers in human serum.

Alexander P.Sassi, Frank Andel , Hans-Marcus L.Bitter, Michael P.S.Brown, Robert G.Chapman, Jeraldine Espiritu, Alfred C.Greenquist, Isabelle Guyon, Mariana Horchi-Alegre, Kathy L.Stults, Ann Wainright, Jonathan C.Heller, John T.Stults. Electrophoresis 26, 2005.

[abstract][pdf]


New prostate cancer biomarkers validated by independent studies

        Isabelle Guyon, Thomas A. Stamey, Herbert A. Fritsche, and Stephen D. Barnhill
       
Technical report. Results presented as a poster at the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference 2005 in San Francisco.

[abstract][pdf]



Pen computing:
Time delay neural network for printed and cursive handwritten character recognition. (<--  patent)
I. Guyon, J. S. Denker, and Y. Le Cun.
US Patent 5,105,468.
1992
[ abstract ]
On-line cursive script recognition using time delay neural networks and hidden Markov models.
M. Schenkel, I. Guyon, and D. Henderson.
Machine Vision and Applications, pages 215--223.
1995
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Overview and synthesis of on-line cursive handwriting recognition techniques.
I. Guyon, M. Schenkel, and J. Denker.
In H. Bunke and Wang P.S.P., editors, Handbook on Optical Character Recognition and Document Image Analysis. World Scientific Publishing Company.
1996
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Design of a linguistic postprocessor using variable memory length Markov models.
I. Guyon and F. Pereira.
In International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, pages 454--457, Montreal, Canada, IEEE Computer Society Press.
1995
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
WANDA: A Generic Framework applied in Forensic Handwriting Analysis and Writer Identification
K. Franke, L. Schomaker, C. Veenhuis, C. Taubenheim, I. Guyon, L. Vuurpijl, M. van Erp, and G. Zwarts
In A. Abraham, M. Kappen, and K. Franke, editors, Design and Application of Hybrid Intelligent Systems, Proc. 3rd International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS03), IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 927-938.
[abstract] [pdf]
See also a short paper to appear in the proceedings of IWFHR 2004 describing the WandaML markup language [pdf] and a longuer technical memorandum on WandaML [pdf]. Another long paper on Wanda also appeared  in ENFHEX news - Bulletin of the European Network of Forensic Handwriting Experts, Number 1/04, ISSN-1456-1469, pp. 23-47 [pdf].

More theory and algorithms:
Structural risk minimization for character recognition.
I. Guyon, V. Vapnik, B. Boser, L. Bottou, and S.A. Solla.
In J. E. Moody et al., editor, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 4 (NIPS 91), pages 471--479, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann.
1992
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What size test set gives good error rate estimates?
I. Guyon, J. Makhoul, R. Schwartz, and V. Vapnik.
PAMI, 20 (1), pages 52--64, IEEE.
1998
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Linear discriminant and support vector classifiers.
I. Guyon and D. Stork.
In Smola et al Eds. Advances in Large Margin Classiers. Pages 147--169, MIT Press.
2000
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
An introduction to variable and feature selection.
Isabelle Guyon, André Elisseeff.
Special issue on variable and feature selection,  I. Guyon, A. Elisseeff, editors. Journal of Machine Learning Research, Volume 3 (Mar). Pages 1157-1182
2003
[abstract] [pdf] [link to JMLR special issue]
 
Causal Feature Selection.
Isabelle Guyon, Constantin Aliferis, André Elisseeff.
To appear in “Computational Methods of Feature Selection”, Huan Liu and Hiroshi Motoda Eds., scheduled to be published in the mid 2007 by Chapman and Hall/CRC Press.
[abstract][pdf of large TM]

Other and older publications:

Information storage and retrieval in spin glass like neural networks.

L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
J. Phys. Lett., 46:L359--L365.
1985
A biologically constrained learning mechanism in networks of formal neurons.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, G. Dreyfus, and G. Toulouse.
J. Stat. Phys. , 43:411--422.
1986
Collective computational properties of neural networks: New learning mechanisms.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
Physical Review A , 34(5):4217--4228.
1986
Neural network design for efficient information retrieval.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
In E. Bienenstock et al, editor, Disordered Systems and Biological Organization, volume 20, pages 227--231. NATO ASI series, Springer.
1986
A simple selectionnist learning rule for neural networks.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, A. Johannet, G. Dreyfus, and G. Toulouse.
In J.S. Denker, editor, Neural Networks for Computing , pages 360--363. AIP Conf.
1986
Designing a neural network satisfying a given set of constraints.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
In J.S. Denker, editor, Neural Networks for Computing , pages 356--359. AIP Conf.
1986
High-order neural networks: information storage without errors.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
Europhysics Letters, 4(8):863--867.
1987
Engineering applications of spin glass concepts.
I. Guyon, L. Personnaz, P. Siarry, and G. Dreyfus.
In J.L. Van Hemmen et al, editor, Heidelberg Colloquium on Glassy Dynamics, volume 275, pages 373--397. Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer
1987
Neural networks for associative memory design.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
In H. Haken, editor, Computational Systems, Natural and Artificial , pages 142--151. Springer.
1987
Storage and retrieval of complex sequences in neural networks.
I. Guyon, L. Personnaz, J. P. Nadal, and G. Dreyfus.
Physical Review A, 38(12):6365--6372.
1988
Of points and loops.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
In R. Eckmiller and C. von der Malsburg, editors, Neural Computers, pages 261--269. Springer.
1988
High order neural networks for efficient associative memory design.
I. Guyon, L. Personnaz, J.P. Nadal, and G. Dreyfus.
In D.Z. Anderson, editor, Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 88), pages 233--241. AIP Conf.
1988
Neural network recognizer for hand-written zip code digits.
J. S. Denker, W. R. Gardner, H. P. Graf, D. Henderson, R.E. Howard, W. Hubbard, L. D. Jackel, H. S. Baird, and I. Guyon.
In D. Touretzky, editor, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 1 (NIPS 88), volume 1, pages 323--331, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann.
1989
Handwritten digit recognition: Applications of neural net chips and automatic learning.
Y. Le Cun , L. D. Jackel, B. Boser, J. S . Denker, H. P. Graf, I. Guyon, D. Henderson, R. E. Howard, and W. Hubbard.
IEEE Communication, pages 41--46.
1989
Neural network implementation of admission control.
R. Milito, I. Guyon, and S. Solla.
In D. S. Touretzky, editor, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 3 (NIPS 90), pages 493--499, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann.
1991
Design of a neural network character recognizer for a touch terminal.
I. Guyon, P. Albrecht, Y. Le Cun , J. Denker, and W. Hubbard.
Pattern Recognition, 24(2):105--119.
1991
[ abstract ]
Writer independent and writer adaptive neural network for on-line character recognition.
I. Guyon, D. Henderson, P. Albrecht, Y. Le Cun, and J. Denker.
In S. Impedovo, editor, From pixels to features III , pages 493--506, Amsterdam, Elsevier.
1992
[ abstract ]
Recognition-based segmentation of on-line hand-printed words.
M. Schenkel, H. Weissman, I. Guyon, C. Nohl, D. Henderson, Boser B., and L. Jackel.
In S. Hanson et al., editor, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 5 (NIPS 92), pages 723--730, San Mateo CA, Morgan Kaufmann.
1993
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Signature verification using a siamese time delay neural network.
J. Bromley, J. Benz, L. Bottou, I. Guyon, L. Jackel, Y. Le Cun, C. Moore, E. Sackinger, and R. Shah.
In I. Guyon and P.S.P. Wang, editors, Advances in Pattern Recognition Systems using Neural Network Technologies,volume 7,pages 669--687,Singapore, Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, World Scientific.
1993
Signature verification using a siamese time delay neural network.
J. Bromley, I. Guyon, Y. Le Cun, E. Sackinger, and R. Shah.
In J. Cowan et al, editor, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6 (NIPS 93), pages 737--744, San Francisco, CA, Morgan Kaufmann.
1994
Recognition-based segmentation of on-line run-on handprinted words: Input vs. output segmentation.
H. Weissman, M. Schenkel, I. Guyon, C. Nohl, and D. Henderson.
Pattern Recognition, 27 (3).
1994
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Learning algorithms for classification: A comparison on handwritten digit recognition.
Y. Le Cun, L.D. Jackel, L. Bottou, C. Cortes, J. Denker, H. Drucker, I. Guyon, U.A. Muller, E. Sackinger, P. Simard, and V. Vapnik.
In J.H. Kwon and S. Cho, editors, Neural Networks: The Statistical Mechanics Perspective, pages 261--276. World Scientific
1995
Handwriting as computer interface.
I. Guyon and C. Warwick.
In Survey of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology. NSF.
1995
[ abstract ] [ full-paper ] [ postcript ]
Data sets for OCR and document image understanding.
I. Guyon, R.M. Haralick, J. Hull, and I. Phillips.
In H. Bunke and Wang P.S.P., editors, Handbook on Optical Character Recognition and Document Image Analysis. World Scientific Publishing Company.
1996
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]


Conference proceeding publications and techreports:

Character recognition, neural networks and statistical physics.

L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
In COGNITIVA-85, pages 719--724, Paris.
1985
An application of neural net chips: handwritten digit recognition.
L. D. Jackel, H. P. Graf, Hubbard W., Denker J. S., Henderson D., and Guyon I.
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Neural Networks , volume II, pages 107--115, San Diego, IEEE.
1988
Comparing different neural network architectures for classifying handwritten digits.
I. Guyon, I. Poujaud, L. Personnaz, G. Dreyfus, J. Denker, and Y. Le Cun .
In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Neural Networks , volume II, pages 127--132, Washington DC, IEEE.
1989
[ abstract ]
A Time Delay Neural Network character recognizer for a touch terminal.
I. Guyon, P. Albrecht, Y. Le Cun , J. Denker, and W. Hubbard.
In International Neural Network Conference , pages 42--45, Paris, France, IEEE.
1990
[ abstract ]
Computer aided cleaning of large databases for character recognition.
N. Matic, I. Guyon, L. Bottou, J. Denker, and V. Vapnik.
In 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume II, pages 330--333.
1992
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Capacity control in linear classifiers for pattern recognition.
I. Guyon, V. Vapnik, B. Boser, L. Bottou, and S.A. Solla.
In 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, volume II, pages 385--388.
1992
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Writer adaptation for on-line handwritten character recognition.
N. Matic , I. Guyon, J. Denker, and V. Vapnik.
In Second International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Document Analysis , pages 187--191, Tsukuba, Japan, IEEE Computer Society Press.
1993
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
On-line cursive script recognition using neural networks and hidden Markov models.
M. Schenkel, I. Guyon, and D. Henderson.
In ICASSP 1994, Adelaide, Australia.
1994
Discovering informative patterns and data cleaning.
I. Guyon, N. Matic , and V. Vapnik.
In AAAI workshop on Knowledge Discovery in Databases, KDD'94, pages 145--156, Seattle, WA.
1994
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
UNIPEN project of on-line data exchange and benchmarks. In International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR'94, pages 29--33, Jerusalem, Israel, IEEE Computer. Society Press.
I. Guyon, L. Schomaker, R. Plamondon, M. Liberman, and S. Janet.
1994
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Comparison of classifier methods: a case study in handwriting digit recognition.
L. Bottou, C. Cortes, J. Denker, H. Drucker, I. Guyon, L.D. Jackel, Y. Le Cun, U.A. Muller, E. Sackinger, P. Simard, and V. Vapnik.
In International Conference on Pattern Recognition , pages 77--87, Jerusalem, Israel, IEEE Computer Society Press.
1994
[ abstract ]
Comparison of learning algorithms for handwritten digit recognition.
Y. Le Cun, L.D. Jackel, L. Bottou, A. Brunot, C. Cortes, J. Denker, H. Drucker, I. Guyon, U.A. Muller , E. Sackinger, P. Simard, and V. Vapnik.
In F. Fogelman and P. Gallinari, editors, International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, pages 53--60, Paris, EC2&Cie.
1995
Usability study of text entry interfaces for wireless personal organizers and communicators.
I. Guyon, Y. Le Cun, and C. Warwick.
In Interfaces to real and virtual worlds, Montpellier.
1996
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
Handwriting synthesis from handwritten glyphs.
I. Guyon.
In Fifth International Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition , Essex University, UK.
1996
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
A pen editor prototype.
I. Guyon and A. Leroy.
Technical Report 11389-921123-33TM, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1992
[ abstract ]
Super-supervised learning for large database cleaning.
N. Matic, I. Guyon, L. Bottou, J. Denker, and V. Vapnik.
Technical Report 11359-920723-17TM, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1992
[ abstract ]
First UNIPEN benchmark of on-line handwriting recognizers organized by NIST.
I. Guyon, L. Schomaker, S. Janet, Liberman M., and R. Plamondon.
Technical Report BL0113590-940630-18TM, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1994
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
A survey on uses of handwriting.
C. Medina and I. Guyon.
Technical Report BL0115540-951206-06, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1995
[ abstract ]
Survey of commercial search engines for WWW servers.
I. Guyon
Unpublished Technical Report, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1995
[ abstract ] [ full-paper ] [ postcript ]
Design of a linguistic postprocessor using variable memory length Markov models.
I. Guyon and F. Pereira.
Unpublished Technical Report, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1995
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]
A scaling law for the validation set training set ratio.
I. Guyon.
Unpublished Technical Report, AT&T Bell Laboratories.
1996
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]

Tutorials and reviews:

Les reseaux de neurones artificiels.

I. Guyon, L. Personnaz, and G. Dreyfus.
Science et Vie , 161:154--160.
1987
Les machines neuronales.
L. Personnaz, I. Guyon, and G. Dreyfus.
La Recherche , 19(204):1362--1371.
1988
Neural network systems.
I. Guyon.
In R. Gruber et al, editor, Proceedings of the fifth International Symposium on Numerical Methods in Engineering, volume 1, pages 203--210. Springer-Verlag.
1989
Applications of neural networks to character recognition.
I. Guyon.
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence , 5:353--381.
1991
[ abstract ]
Neural networks and applications tutorial.
I. Guyon.
Physics Reports , 207(3-5):215--259.
1991
[ abstract ]
Applications of neural networks to character recognition.
I. Guyon.
In P.S.P Wang, editor, Character and Handwriting Recognition, Expanding Frontiers, volume 30, pages 353--382. Series in Computer Science, World Scientific.
1991
[ abstract ]
Penacee: A neural network system for recognizing on-line handwriting.
I. Guyon, J. Bromley, N. Matic , M. Schenkel, and H. Weissman.
In E. Domany, J. L. van Hemmen, and K. Schulten, editors, Models of Neural Networks, volume 3, pages 255--279, Springer.
1995
[ abstract ] [ postcript ]

Book/journals edited:

Advances in Pattern Recognition Systems using Neural Network Technologies ,volume 7.

I. Guyon and P.S.P. Wang, editors.
World Scientific, Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, Singapore (also appeared as a special issue if IJPRAI, volume 7 (4). World Scientific, Singapore, August 1993).
1994
[ abstract ]
Variable and feature selection.
Isabelle Guyon and André Elisseeff, editors.
 Journal of Machine Learning Research, Volume 3 (Mar).
2003
[Link to the collection of papers at JMLR]

Feature Extraction, Foundations and Applications.

          Isabelle Guyon, Steve Gunn, Masoud Nikravesh, and Lofti Zadeh, Editors.
         Series Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing, Physica-Verlag, Springer,
         2006.
         [Web page of the book]