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Support vector machines (SVMs) are well-studied supervised learning models for binary classification. In many applications, large amounts of samples can be cheaply and easily obtained. What is often a costly and error-prone process is to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Veronica Piccialli , Jan Schwiddessen , Antonio M. Sudoso

The support vector machine (SVM) is a supervised learning algorithm that finds a maximum-margin linear classifier, often after mapping the data to a high-dimensional feature space via the kernel trick. Recent work has demonstrated that in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-16 Chiraag Kaushik , Andrew D. McRae , Mark A. Davenport , Vidya Muthukumar

From the advent of the application of satellite imagery to land cover mapping, one of the growing areas of research interest has been in the area of image classification. Image classifiers are algorithms used to extract land cover…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2010-07-13 Gidudu Anthony , Hulley Gregg , Marwala Tshilidzi

In this paper, we present new optimization models for Support Vector Machine (SVM), with the aim of separating data points in two or more classes. The classification task is handled by means of nonlinear classifiers induced by kernel…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Francesca Maggioni , Andrea Spinelli

Support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most popular classification algorithms in the machine learning literature. We demonstrate that SVM can be used to balance covariates and estimate average causal effects under the unconfoundedness…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-07-02 Alexander Tarr , Kosuke Imai

The imminent advent of very large-scale optical sky surveys, such as Euclid and LSST, makes it important to find efficient ways of discovering rare objects such as strong gravitational lens systems, where a background object is multiply…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 P. Hartley , R. Flamary , N. Jackson , A. S. Tagore , R. B. Metcalf

We compare the performance of two automated classification algorithms: k-dimensional tree (kd-tree) and support vector machines (SVMs), to separate quasars from stars in the databases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 Gao Dan , Zhang Yanxia , Zhao Yongheng

In this paper, an approach is proposed to fuse LiDAR and hyperspectral data, which considers both spectral and spatial information in a single framework. Here, an extended self-dual attribute profile (ESDAP) is investigated to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-11 Pedram Ghamisi , Gabriele Cavallaro , Dan , Wu , Jon Atli Benediktsson , Antonio Plaza

Recent advances in healthcare technologies have led to the availability of large amounts of biological samples across several techniques and applications. In particular, in the last few years, Raman spectroscopy analysis of biological…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-24 Marco Piazza , Andrea Spinelli , Francesca Maggioni , Marzia Bedoni , Enza Messina

Machine learning algorithms are increasingly being applied in security-related tasks such as spam and malware detection, although their security properties against deliberate attacks have not yet been widely understood. Intelligent and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Huang Xiao , Battista Biggio , Blaine Nelson , Han Xiao , Claudia Eckert , Fabio Roli

We review the concept of support vector machines (SVMs) and discuss examples of their use. One of the benefits of SVM algorithms, compared with neural networks and decision trees is that they can be less susceptible to over fitting than…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2016-12-21 A. Bethani , A. J. Bevan , J. Hays , T. J. Stevenson

In traditional boosting algorithms, the focus on misclassified training samples emphasizes their importance based on difficulty during the learning process. While using a standard Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a weak learner in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junbo Jacob Lian

A mean field variational Bayes approach to support vector machines (SVMs) using the latent variable representation on Polson & Scott (2012) is presented. This representation allows circumvention of many of the shortcomings associated with…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-05-14 Jan Luts , John T. Ormerod

Given a training set with binary classification, the Support Vector Machine identifies the hyperplane maximizing the margin between the two classes of training data. This general formulation is useful in that it can be applied without…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-13 Matt Parker , Colin Parker

We describe in a rudimentary fashion how SVM(support vector machine) plays the role of classifier in a mathematical setting. We then discuss its application in the study of multiple SNP(single nucleotide polymorphism) variations. Also…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Seung-chan Ahn , Gene Kim , MyungHo Kim

This paper explores the potential of extreme learning machine based supervised classification algorithm for land cover classification. In comparison to a backpropagation neural network, which requires setting of several user-defined…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Mahesh Pal

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are one of the most popular supervised learning models to classify using a hyperplane in an Euclidean space. Similar to SVMs, tropical SVMs classify data points using a tropical hyperplane under the tropical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Ruriko Yoshida , Misaki Takamori , Hideyuki Matsumoto , Keiji Miura

In many applications, input data are sampled functions taking their values in infinite dimensional spaces rather than standard vectors. This fact has complex consequences on data analysis algorithms that motivate modifications of them. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabrice Rossi , Nathalie Villa

Support vector machines (SVMs) are a standard tool for binary classification, but their classical formulations are purely data-driven and offer no direct way to encode trusted benchmark models or structured preferences on selected subsets…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-29 Mohammad Jafari Jozani , Bahram Moeinianfar

We investigate the relation of two fundamental tools in machine learning and signal processing, that is the support vector machine (SVM) for classification, and the Lasso technique used in regression. We show that the resulting optimization…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Martin Jaggi