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Support vector machines (SVMs) are widely used and constitute one of the best examined and used machine learning models for two-class classification. Classification in SVM is based on a score procedure, yielding a deterministic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rafael Blanquero , Emilio Carrizosa , Pepa Ramírez-Cobo

Support Vector Machine (SVM) stands out as a prominent machine learning technique widely applied in practical pattern recognition tasks. It achieves binary classification by maximizing the "margin", which represents the minimum distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhezheng Hao , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang

Support vector machine (SVM) is a well-known statistical technique for classification problems in machine learning and other fields. An important question for SVM is the selection of covariates (or features) for the model. Many studies have…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-22 Jiahui Zou , Chaoxia Yuan , Xinyu Zhang , Guohua Zou , Alan T. K. Wan

Support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful machine learning algorithm to handle classification tasks. However, the classical SVM is developed for binary problems with the assumption of balanced datasets. Obviously, the multi-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhong-Liang Zhang , Jie Yang , Jian-Ming Ru , Xiao-Xi Zhao , Xing-Gang Luo

This paper presents the impact of using quantization on the efficiency of multi-class text classification in the training process of a support vector machine (SVM). This work is focused on comparing the efficiency of SVM model trained using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Dominik Żurek , Marcin Pietroń

In the last few years, due to the growing ubiquity of unlabeled data, much effort has been spent by the machine learning community to develop better understanding and improve the quality of classifiers exploiting unlabeled data. Following…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-09-30 Stefano Melacci , Mikhail Belkin

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are a relatively new supervised classification technique to the land cover mapping community. They have their roots in Statistical Learning Theory and have gained prominence because they are robust, accurate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-09-26 Gidudu Anthony , Hulley Greg , Marwala Tshilidzi

We review the concept of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and discuss examples of their use in a number of scenarios. Several SVM implementations have been used in HEP and we exemplify this algorithm using the Toolkit for Multivariate…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-12-06 Adrian Bevan , Rodrigo Gamboa Goñi , Jon Hays , Tom Stevenson

One of the limiting factors of using support vector machines (SVMs) in large scale applications are their super-linear computational requirements in terms of the number of training samples. To address this issue, several approaches that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-24 Mona Eberts , Ingo Steinwart

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

An importance sampling and bagging approach to solving the support vector machine (SVM) problem in the context of large databases is presented and evaluated. Our algorithm builds on the nearest neighbors ideas presented in Camelo at al.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-20 R. Bárcenas , M. D. Gónzalez--Lima , A. J. Quiroz

We propose two optimization techniques to minimize memory usage and computation while meeting system timing constraints for real-time classification in wearable systems. Our method derives a hierarchical classifier structure for Support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Mahdi Pedram , Mahsan Rofouei , Francesco Fraternali , Zhila Esna Ashari , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are among the most fundamental tools for binary classification. In its simplest formulation, an SVM produces a hyperplane separating two classes of data using the largest possible margin to the data. The focus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Allan Grønlund , Lior Kamma , Kasper Green Larsen

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chen Ding , Tian-Yi Bao , He-Liang Huang

The time complexity of support vector machines (SVMs) prohibits training on huge data sets with millions of data points. Recently, multilevel approaches to train SVMs have been developed to allow for time-efficient training on huge data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Sebastian Schlag , Matthias Schmitt , Christian Schulz

This chapter describes componentwise Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVMs) for the estimation of additive models consisting of a sum of nonlinear components. The primal-dual derivations characterizing LS-SVMs for the estimation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Kristiaan Pelckmans , Ivan Goethals , Jos De Brabanter , Johan A. K. Suykens , Bart De Moor

Subgradient algorithms for training support vector machines have been quite successful for solving large-scale and online learning problems. However, they have been restricted to linear kernels and strongly convex formulations. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-11-04 Sangkyun Lee , Stephen J. Wright

Document classification is a task of assigning a new unclassified document to one of the predefined set of classes. The content based document classification uses the content of the document with some weighting criteria to assign it to one…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-01-15 Muhammad Rafi , Mohammad Shahid Shaikh

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

A widely-used tool for binary classification is the Support Vector Machine (SVM), a supervised learning technique that finds the "maximum margin" linear separator between the two classes. While SVMs have been well studied in the batch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Vikram Nathan , Sharath Raghvendra