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Tropical SVM tackles phylogenomics by classifying multi-locus data.

problem Classifying multi-locus data sets for phylogenetic analysis.
method Proposes tropical support vector machines (SVMs) for phylogenomics, formulated as linear programming problems.
result Developed methods for hard and soft margin tropical SVMs, proving necessary and sufficient conditions for separation.

OKSVM optimizes RBF kernel hyperparameter for SVMs, improving classification performance.

problem Intrinsic dependence of RBF kernel hyperparameter on SVM performance.
method Gradient descent method for automatic hyperparameter learning and SVM weights adjustment.
result OKSVM outperforms classical SVM regardless of initial RBF hyperparameter values.

Kernel-based support vector machines (SVMs) are supervised machine learning algorithms for classification and regression problems. We introduce a method to train SVMs on a D-Wave 2000Q quantum annealer and study its performance in comparison to SVMs trained on conventional computers. The method is applied to both synth…

2019-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

When applying the support vector machine (SVM) to high-dimensional classification problems, we often impose a sparse structure in the SVM to eliminate the influences of the irrelevant predictors. The lasso and other variable selection techniques have been successfully used in the SVM to perform automatic variable selec…

2007-10-02abs ↗pdf ↗

The AdaBoost algorithm has the superiority of resisting overfitting. Understanding the mysteries of this phenomena is a very fascinating fundamental theoretical problem. Many studies are devoted to explaining it from statistical view and margin theory. In this paper, we illustrate it from feature learning viewpoint, an…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

New NHCAs improve multi-category classification efficiency.

problem Efficient multi-category classification for real-world problems.
method Twin SVM (TWSVM), Generalized eigenvalue proximal SVM (GEPSVM), Regularized GEPSVM (RegGEPSVM), and Improved GEPSVM (IGEPSVM) with OAA, BT, and TDS approaches.
result TDS-TWSVM outperforms other methods in classification accuracy.

SaR-SVM-STV improves hyperspectral image classification with shape-adaptive reconstruction and denoising.

problem Classifying hyperspectral images with limited labeled data.
method Shape-adaptive Reconstruction (SaR) for pixel preprocessing, SVM for probability estimation, and Smoothed Total Variation (STV) for denoising.
result SaR-SVM-STV outperforms SVM-STV with fewer labeled data.

The support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most successful learning methods for solving classification problems. Despite its popularity, SVM has a serious drawback, that is sensitivity to outliers in training samples. The penalty on misclassification is defined by a convex loss called the hinge loss, and the unboun…

2014-09-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Support vector machine (SVM) is a particularly powerful and flexible supervised learning model that analyzes data for both classification and regression, whose usual algorithm complexity scales polynomially with the dimension of data space and the number of data points. To tackle the big data challenge, a quantum SVM a…

2019-06-21abs ↗pdf ↗

New research shows SVM and related methods can overfit without harm in multiclass classification.

problem Understanding benign overfitting in multiclass classification.
method Analyzing three training algorithms: ERM with cross-entropy, least-squares, and one-vs-all SVM.
result All three algorithms can lead to classifiers that interpolate training data and have equal accuracy under high overparameterization.

Analyzes SVM classifier behavior with different parameters and data types.

problem Tuning SVM parameters for balanced and imbalanced data.
method Behavioral analysis of SVM with different parameters and data types, proposing a novel search algorithm.
result Proposed search algorithm reduces computational time and provides expected kernel function range.

Classifiers and rating scores are prone to implicitly codifying biases, which may be present in the training data, against protected classes (i.e., age, gender, or race). So it is important to understand how to design classifiers and scores that prevent discrimination in predictions. This paper develops computationally…

2017-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper evaluates t-SNE and MDS for reducing dimensions in datasets and classifying them with KNN, ENN, and SVM.

problem Reducing dimensions in datasets for better classification performance.
method t-SNE and MDS applied to nine datasets, followed by KNN, ENN, and SVM classification.
result Performance comparison of t-SNE and MDS with KNN, ENN, and SVM.

Often, when dealing with real-world recognition problems, we do not need, and often cannot have, knowledge of the entire set of possible classes that might appear during operational testing. In such cases, we need to think of robust classification methods able to deal with the "unknown" and properly reject samples belo…

2016-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

SVM used for estimating treatment effects without confounding.

problem Estimating average treatment effects in the presence of confounding variables.
method Adapts SVM classifier as a kernel-based weighting procedure to balance covariates and estimate causal effects.
result SVM provides a continuous relaxation of the quadratic integer program for balancing covariates and maximizing effective sample size.

The deep network model, with the majority built on neural networks, has been proved to be a powerful framework to represent complex data for high performance machine learning. In recent years, more and more studies turn to nonneural network approaches to build diverse deep structures, and the Deep Stacking Network (DSN…

2019-02-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes methods to improve SVM classifiers in noisy data scenarios.

problem Improving SVM classifiers when training data contains label noise.
method Mixed Integer Linear and Non Linear models with relabeling and clustering.
result Effective methods improve SVM performance in noisy data scenarios.

Study uses multi-task Bayesian optimization to speed up SVM hyperparameter tuning for nodules diagnosis.

problem Redundant and time-consuming hyperparameter tuning for SVM classifiers in medical imaging.
method Employed multi-task Bayesian optimization to accelerate hyperparameter search.
result Multi-task Bayesian optimization significantly accelerates hyperparameter search.

Unified SVM framework tackles multiclass and multilabel classification.

problem Extending SVM to handle multiclass and multilabel problems.
method Unified framework with class-specific weight vectors and penalizing patterns close to an origin.
result Unified framework achieves competitive performance for multiclass and multilabel classification.

In the era of big data, an important weapon in a machine learning researcher's arsenal is a scalable Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm. SVMs are extensively used for solving classification problems. Traditional algorithms for learning SVMs often scale super linearly with training set size which becomes infeasible …

2018-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

A new procedure for learning cost-sensitive SVM(CS-SVM) classifiers is proposed. The SVM hinge loss is extended to the cost sensitive setting, and the CS-SVM is derived as the minimizer of the associated risk. The extension of the hinge loss draws on recent connections between risk minimization and probability elicitat…

2012-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

New Frank-Wolfe algorithm speeds up SVM-type multi-category learning.

problem Improving pattern recognition performance in multi-category SVM learning.
method Developed a new optimization algorithm based on Frank-Wolfe framework for MC-SVM variants.
result Closed-form solutions for direction finding and line search in the Frank-Wolfe framework for MC-SVM.

This work uses SVM to identify track component failures in AC Track Circuits.

problem Detecting and identifying specific track component failures in AC Track Circuits.
method Applied SVM classifier to STDS track circuit data.
result Successfully classified 15 different track component failures.

Support vector machines (SVMs) rely on the inherent geometry of a data set to classify training data. Because of this, we believe SVMs are an excellent candidate to guide the development of an analytic feature selection algorithm, as opposed to the more commonly used heuristic methods. We propose a filter-based feature…

2013-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we analyze the Wisconsin Diagnostic Breast Cancer Data using Machine Learning classification techniques, such as the SVM, Bayesian Logistic Regression (Variational Approximation), and K-Nearest-Neighbors. We describe each model, and compare their performance through different measures. We conclude that S…

2018-07-03abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method uses SVM classification to efficiently compute confidence sets.

problem Computing confidence sets for moment inequalities is computationally intensive.
method Converts confidence set construction into a classification problem using SVM.
result Asymptotically reproduces the test in the confidence set using SVM classification.