Analysis of convergence performance of neural networks ranking algorithm.

Abstract

The ranking problem is to learn a real-valued function which gives rise to a ranking over an instance space, which has gained much attention in machine learning in recent years. This article gives analysis of the convergence performance of neural networks ranking algorithm by means of the given samples and approximation property of neural networks. The upper bounds of convergence rate provided by our results can be considerably tight and independent of the dimension of input space when the target function satisfies some smooth condition. The obtained results imply that neural networks are able to adapt to ranking function in the instance space. Hence the obtained results are able to circumvent the curse of dimensionality on some smooth condition.