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This work proposes a new algorithm for training a re-weighted L2 Support Vector Machine (SVM), inspired on the re-weighted Lasso algorithm of Candès et al. and on the equivalence between Lasso and SVM shown recently by Jaggi. In particular, the margin required for each training vector is set independently, defining a n…

MPWTSVM improves multi-view learning by reducing redundancy and enhancing accuracy.

Solving different types of optimization models (including parameters fitting) for support vector machines on large-scale training data is often an expensive computational task. This paper proposes a multilevel algorithmic framework that scales efficiently to very large data sets. Instead of solving the whole training s…

A novel linear classification method that possesses the merits of both the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and the Distance-weighted Discrimination (DWD) is proposed in this article. The proposed Distance-weighted Support Vector Machine method can be viewed as a hybrid of SVM and DWD that finds the classification directio…

New ensemble SVM model reduces prediction error without choosing best kernel.

The principal support vector machines method (Li et al., 2011) is a powerful tool for sufficient dimension reduction that replaces original predictors with their low-dimensional linear combinations without loss of information. However, the computational burden of the principal support vector machines method constrains …

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

Unified SVM framework tackles multiclass and multilabel classification.

Application of fuzzy support vector machine in stock price forecast. Support vector machine is a new type of machine learning method proposed in 1990s. It can deal with classification and regression problems very successfully. Due to the excellent learning performance of support vector machine, the technology has becom…

We generalize a support vector machine to a support spinor machine by using the mathematical structure of wedge product over vector machine in order to extend field from vector field to spinor field. The separated hyperplane is extended to Kolmogorov space in time series data which allow us to extend a structure of sup…

Selecting important features in non-linear or kernel spaces is a difficult challenge in both classification and regression problems. When many of the features are irrelevant, kernel methods such as the support vector machine and kernel ridge regression can sometimes perform poorly. We propose weighting the features wit…

Gradient flow on softmax attention minimizes nuclear norm of weight matrices.

Maximizes stock portfolio predictability using machine learning.

Support vector machines have attracted much attention in theoretical and in applied statistics. Main topics of recent interest are consistency, learning rates and robustness. In this article, it is shown that support vector machines are qualitatively robust. Since support vector machines can be represented by a functio…

Many problems that appear in biomedical decision making, such as diagnosing disease and predicting response to treatment, can be expressed as binary classification problems. The costs of false positives and false negatives vary across application domains and receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves provide a visu…

Improvement of statistical learning models in order to increase efficiency in solving classification or regression problems is still a goal pursued by the scientific community. In this way, the support vector machine model is one of the most successful and powerful algorithms for those tasks. However, its performance d…

New SVM model balances sparsity and robustness in noisy data.

Relevance vector machine (RVM) can be seen as a probabilistic version of support vector machines which is able to produce sparse solutions by linearly weighting a small number of basis functions instead using all of them. Regardless of a few merits of RVM such as giving probabilistic predictions and relax of parameter …

Proposes novel wSVMs for sparse learning and accurate probability estimation.

With the widespread engineering applications ranging from artificial intelligence and big data decision-making, originally a lot of tedious financial data processing, processing and analysis have become more and more convenient and effective. This paper aims to improve the accuracy of stock price forecasting. It improv…

A new method detects outliers in dirty data using a leave-out strategy.

T-SVM improves learning in spiking neurons by maximizing dynamical margin.

We propose an algorithm for exploring the entire regularization path of asymmetric-cost linear support vector machines. Empirical evidence suggests the predictive power of support vector machines depends on the regularization parameters of the training algorithms. The algorithms exploring the entire regularization path…

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is an efficient classification approach, which finds a hyperplane to separate data from different classes. This hyperplane is determined by support vectors. In existing SVM formulations, the objective function uses L2 norm or L1 norm on slack variables. The number of support vectors is a me…

SVM used for estimating treatment effects without confounding.

Among the extensions of twin support vector machine (TSVM), some scholars have utilized K-nearest neighbor (KNN) graph to enhance TSVM's classification accuracy. However, these KNN-based TSVM classifiers have two major issues such as high computational cost and overfitting. In order to address these issues, this paper …

SVM generalizes well even with many support vectors in high dimensions.

We analyze the computational complexity of Quantum Sparse Support Vector Machine, a linear classifier that minimizes the hinge loss and the $L_1$ norm of the feature weights vector and relies on a quantum linear programming solver instead of a classical solver. Sparse SVM leads to sparse models that use only a small fr…

We consider the problem of publicly releasing a dataset for support vector machine classification while not infringing on the privacy of data subjects (i.e., individuals whose private information is stored in the dataset). The dataset is systematically obfuscated using an additive noise for privacy protection. Motivate…

LIBTwinSVM offers a free library for efficient Twin Support Vector Machines.

The support vector clustering algorithm is a well-known clustering algorithm based on support vector machines using Gaussian or polynomial kernels. The classical support vector clustering algorithm works well in general, but its performance degrades when applied on big data. In this paper, we have investigated the perf…

Paper proposes fully Bayesian approach for RVM classification, improving accuracy especially in imbalanced data.

Single ReLU neuron's gradient dynamics reveal support vectors as key to generalization.

A new method for high-dimensional classification using Bernstein polynomials.

In this paper we solve support vector machines in reproducing kernel Banach spaces with reproducing kernels defined on nonsymmetric domains instead of the traditional methods in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Using the orthogonality of semi-inner-products, we can obtain the explicit representations of the dual (nor…

This work proposes a model averaging method for SVM that avoids redundant covariates and achieves asymptotic optimality.

The computational complexity of solving nonlinear support vector machine (SVM) is prohibitive on large-scale data. In particular, this issue becomes very sensitive when the data represents additional difficulties such as highly imbalanced class sizes. Typically, nonlinear kernels produce significantly higher classifica…

The least-squares support vector machine is a frequently used kernel method for non-linear regression and classification tasks. Here we discuss several approximation algorithms for the least-squares support vector machine classifier. The proposed methods are based on randomized block kernel matrices, and we show that t…

Rgtsvm provides a fast and flexible support vector machine (SVM) implementation for the R language. The distinguishing feature of Rgtsvm is that support vector classification and support vector regression tasks are implemented on a graphical processing unit (GPU), allowing the libraries to scale to millions of examples…

The support vector machine (SVM) is an important class of learning machines for function approach, pattern recognition, and time-serious prediction, etc. It maps samples into the feature space by so-called support vectors of selected samples, and then feature vectors are separated by maximum margin hyperplane. The pres…

Proposes MLPSVM for multi-label learning, improving on binary relevance.

A new SVM method for predicting time series labels.

SVM and linear regression models coincide in high dimensions.

The support vector machines (SVM) algorithm is a popular classification technique in data mining and machine learning. In this paper, we propose a distributed SVM algorithm and demonstrate its use in a number of applications. The algorithm is named high-performance support vector machines (HPSVM). The major contributio…

There has been growing interest in extending traditional vector-based machine learning techniques to their tensor forms. An example is the support tensor machine (STM) that utilizes a rank-one tensor to capture the data structure, thereby alleviating the overfitting and curse of dimensionality problems in the conventio…

Novel defense algorithm improves SVMs against data poisoning attacks.

A new term weighting scheme TF-IDFC-RF outperforms others in sentiment analysis.

Tuning SVM and boosting models using optimization algorithms.