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In nonparametric classification and regression problems, regularized kernel methods, in particular support vector machines, attract much attention in theoretical and in applied statistics. In an abstract sense, regularized kernel methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-04-13 Robert Hable

This paper presents a review on methods for class-imbalanced learning with the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and its variants. We first explain the structure of SVM and its variants and discuss their inefficiency in learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Salim Rezvani , Farhad Pourpanah , Chee Peng Lim , Q. M. Jonathan Wu

The support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful and widely used classification algorithm. This paper uses the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker conditions to provide rigorous mathematical proof for new insights into the behavior of SVM. These insights…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-10-11 Iain Carmichael , J. S. Marron

In conventional prediction tasks, a machine learning algorithm outputs a single best model that globally optimizes its objective function, which typically is accuracy. Therefore, users cannot access the other models explicitly. In contrast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Kentaro Kanamori , Satoshi Hara , Masakazu Ishihata , Hiroki Arimura

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is powerful classification technique based on the idea of structural risk minimization. Use of kernel function enables curse of dimensionality to be addressed. However, proper kernel function for certain problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Arindam Chaudhuri

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 2007-11-20 Gidudu Anthony , Hulley Gregg , Marwala Tshilidzi

We introduce a principal support vector machine (PSVM) approach that can be used for both linear and nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction. The basic idea is to divide the response variables into slices and use a modified form of support…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-03-14 Bing Li , Andreas Artemiou , Lexin Li

Support Vector Machines have been a popular topic for quite some time now, and as they develop, a need for new methods of feature selection arises. This work presents various approaches SVM feature selection developped using new tools such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Tangui Aladjidi , François Pasqualini

Disease classification is a crucial element of biomedical research. Recent studies have demonstrated that machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) modeling, produce similar or improved predictive capabilities in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-02 Jessica M. Rudd

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

Support vector machines (SVM) and other kernel techniques represent a family of powerful statistical classification methods with high accuracy and broad applicability. Because they use all or a significant portion of the training data,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-31 Peter Mills

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 Machines (SVMs) are well-established Machine Learning (ML) algorithms. They rely on the fact that i) linear learning can be formalized as a well-posed optimization problem; ii) non-linear learning can be brought into linear…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Christian Gagné , Marc Schoenauer , Michèle Sebag , Marco Tomassini

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

The Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) is a recently developed machine learning framework capable of building simple models from large sets of candidate features. Here, we describe a protocol for using the RVM to explore very large numbers of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Thomas A. Down , Tim J. P. Hubbard

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

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a common classifier used for efficient classification with high accuracy. SVM shows high accuracy for classifying melanoma (skin cancer) clinical images within computer-aided diagnosis systems used by skin…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-30 Shereen Afifi , Hamid GholamHosseini , Roopak Sinha

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are powerful learners that have led to state-of-the-art results in various computer vision problems. SVMs suffer from various drawbacks in terms of selecting the right kernel, which depends on the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-03-31 Gemma Roig , Xavier Boix , Luc Van Gool

The parameters of support vector machines (SVMs) such as the penalty parameter and the kernel parameters have a great impact on the classification accuracy and the complexity of the SVM model. Therefore, the model selection in SVM involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-13 Alaa Tharwat

Despite progress in the rapidly developing field of geometric deep learning, performing statistical analysis on geometric data--where each observation is a shape such as a curve, graph, or surface--remains challenging due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Emmanuel Hartman , Nicolas Charon