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Adversarial examples bring a considerable security threat to support vector machines (SVMs), especially those used in safety-critical applications. Thus, robustness verification is an essential issue for SVMs, which can provide provable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Yuting Liu , Hong Gu , Pan Qin

Support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classifier known for accuracy, flexibility, and robustness. However, its intensive computation has hindered its application to large-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose a new optimal leverage…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-25 Yixin Han , Jun Yu , Nan Zhang , Cheng Meng , Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong , Changliang Zou

A support vector machine (SVM) is an algorithm that finds a hyperplane which optimally separates labeled data points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ into positive and negative classes. The data points on the margin of this separating hyperplane are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Henry Adams , Elin Farnell , Brittany Story

We consider the problem of learning support vector machines robust to uncertainty. It has been established in the literature that typical loss functions, including the hinge loss, are sensible to data perturbations and outliers, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Valentina Cepeda , Andrés Gómez , Shaoning Han

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

Learning in the presence of outliers is a fundamental problem in statistics. Until recently, all known efficient unsupervised learning algorithms were very sensitive to outliers in high dimensions. In particular, even for the task of robust…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-11-15 Ilias Diakonikolas , Daniel M. Kane

In this paper, we introduce novel Twin Parametric Margin Support Vector Machine (TPMSVM) models designed to address multiclass classification tasks under feature uncertainty. To handle data perturbations, we construct bounded-by-norm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Renato De Leone , Francesca Maggioni , Andrea Spinelli

The support vector machine (SVM) is a well-established classification method whose name refers to the particular training examples, called support vectors, that determine the maximum margin separating hyperplane. The SVM classifier is known…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-06-15 Daniel Hsu , Vidya Muthukumar , Ji Xu

Support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most studied paradigms in the realm of machine learning for classification and regression problems. It relies on vectorized input data. However, a significant portion of the real-world data exists…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Anuradha Kumari , Mushir Akhtar , Rupal Shah , M. Tanveer

Iterative gradient-based algorithms have been increasingly applied for the training of a broad variety of machine learning models including large neural-nets. In particular, momentum-based methods, with accelerated learning guarantees, have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-10 José M. Moreu , Anuradha M. Annaswamy

Multivariate data analysis techniques have the potential to improve physics analyses in many ways. The common classification problem of signal/background discrimination is one example. The Support Vector Machine learning algorithm is a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Vaiciulis

The robustness of classifiers has become a question of paramount importance in the past few years. Indeed, it has been shown that state-of-the-art deep learning architectures can easily be fooled with imperceptible changes to their inputs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Théo Giraudon , Vincent Gripon , Matthias Löwe , Franck Vermet

We study the problem of formally verifying the robustness to adversarial examples of support vector machines (SVMs), a major machine learning model for classification and regression tasks. Following a recent stream of works on formal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Francesco Ranzato , Marco Zanella

It is shown that bootstrap approximations of support vector machines (SVMs) based on a general convex and smooth loss function and on a general kernel are consistent. This result is useful to approximate the unknown finite sample…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-01-30 Andreas Christmann , Robert Hable

Feedback-based online optimization algorithms have gained traction in recent years because of their simple implementation, their ability to reject disturbances in real time, and their increased robustness to model mismatch. While the…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Marcello Colombino , John W. Simpson-Porco , Andrey Bernstein

This paper provides an overview of current approaches for solving inverse problems in imaging using variational methods and machine learning. A special focus lies on point estimators and their robustness against adversarial perturbations.…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-10 Alexander Auras , Kanchana Vaishnavi Gandikota , Hannah Droege , Michael Moeller

As machine learning models become increasingly prevalent in critical decision-making models and systems in fields like finance, healthcare, etc., ensuring their robustness against adversarial attacks and changes in the input data is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-08-05 Arun Prakash R , Anwesha Bhattacharyya , Joel Vaughan , Vijayan N. Nair

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Taiping He , Tao Wang , Ralph Abbey , Joshua Griffin

Robust estimation and variable selection procedure are developed for the extended t-process regression model with functional data. Statistical properties such as consistency of estimators and predictions are obtained. Numerical studies show…

Applications · Statistics 2018-12-20 Zhanfeng Wang , Kai Li , Jian Qing Shi

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) of Vapnik (1998) has become widely established as one of the leading approaches to pattern recognition and machine learning. It expresses predictions in terms of a linear combination of kernel functions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-18 Christopher M. Bishop , Michael Tipping