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Ph.D. Dissertation, California Institute of Technology, May 2008;
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(Local PDF)
Hsuan-Tien Lin.
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Vector Machines.
Master's Thesis, California Institute of Technology, May 2005;
(Caltech ETD),
(Updated PDF).