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Due to the rise of cardinality minimization in optimization, sparse support vector machines (SSVMs) have attracted much attention lately and show certain empirical advantages over convex SVMs. A common way to derive an SSVM is to add a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Penghe Zhang , Naihua Xiu , Houduo Qi

The linear Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a classic classification technique in machine learning. Motivated by applications in modern high dimensional statistics, we consider penalized SVM problems involving the minimization of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-08-31 Antoine Dedieu , Rahul Mazumder , Haoyue Wang

Support vector machines are widely used in machine learning classification tasks, but traditional SVM models suffer from sensitivity to outliers and instability in resampling, which limits their performance in practical applications. To…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-01 Shibo Diao

Support vector machines (SVMs) are popular learning algorithms to deal with binary classification problems. They traditionally assume equal misclassification costs for each class; however, real-world problems may have an uneven class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Alejandro Rosales-Pérez , Salvador García , Francisco Herrera

Category imbalance is one of the most popular and important issues in the domain of classification. Emotion classification model trained on imbalanced datasets easily leads to unreliable prediction. The traditional machine learning method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Lu Jiang , Qi Wang , Yuhang Chang , Jianing Song , Haoyue Fu , Xiaochun Yang

Support vector machine (SVM) has achieved many successes in machine learning, especially for a small sample problem. As a famous extension of the traditional SVM, the $\nu$ support vector machine ($\nu$-SVM) has shown outstanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhiji Yang , Wanyi Chen , Huan Zhang , Yitian Xu , Lei Shi , Jianhua Zhao

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a popular classification paradigm in machine learning and has achieved great success in real applications. However, the standard SVM can not select variables automatically and therefore its solution…

Methodology · Statistics 2008-12-18 Hao Helen Zhang , Yufeng Liu , Yichao Wu , Ji Zhu

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a robust machine learning algorithm with broad applications in classification, regression, and outlier detection. SVM requires tuning the regularization parameter (RP) which controls the model capacity and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-18 Mahdi Shamsi , Soosan Beheshti

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…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-09 Xingye Qiao , Lingsong Zhang

Support Vector Machines (SVM), a popular machine learning technique, has been applied to a wide range of domains such as science, finance, and social networks for supervised learning. Whether it is identifying high-risk patients by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Jeyanthi Narasimhan , Abhinav Vishnu , Lawrence Holder , Adolfy Hoisie

We propose a new convex loss for Support Vector Machines, both for the binary classification and for the regression models. Therefore, we show the mathematical derivation of the dual problems and we experiment with them on several small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Filippo Portera

The generalization error bound of support vector machine (SVM) depends on the ratio of radius and margin, while standard SVM only considers the maximization of the margin but ignores the minimization of the radius. Several approaches have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Xiaohe Wu , Wangmeng Zuo , Yuanyuan Zhu , Liang Lin

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

We carefully study how well minimizing convex surrogate loss functions, corresponds to minimizing the misclassification error rate for the problem of binary classification with linear predictors. In particular, we show that amongst all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Shai Ben-David , David Loker , Nathan Srebro , Karthik Sridharan

We present a unified framework for computing CVA sensitivities, hedging the CVA, and assessing CVA risk, using probabilistic machine learning meant as refined regression tools on simulated data, validatable by low-cost companion Monte Carlo…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-07-29 Stéphane Crépey , Botao Li , Hoang Nguyen , Bouazza Saadeddine

Dropout and other feature noising schemes have shown promising results in controlling over-fitting by artificially corrupting the training data. Though extensive theoretical and empirical studies have been performed for generalized linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Ning Chen , Jun Zhu , Jianfei Chen , Bo Zhang

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

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

Due to the non-smoothness of the Hinge loss in SVM, it is difficult to obtain a faster convergence rate with modern optimization algorithms. In this paper, we introduce two smooth Hinge losses $\psi_G(\alpha;\sigma)$ and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-16 JunRu Luo , Hong Qiao , Bo Zhang

A recent article introduced thecontinuous stochastic gradient method (CSG) for the efficient solution of a class of stochastic optimization problems. While the applicability of known stochastic gradient type methods is typically limited to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Lukas Pflug , Max Grieshammer , Andrian Uihlein , Michael Stingl