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How can we train a statistical mixture model on a massive data set? In this work we show how to construct coresets for mixtures of Gaussians. A coreset is a weighted subset of the data, which guarantees that models fitting the coreset also…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-01-17 Mario Lucic , Matthew Faulkner , Andreas Krause , Dan Feldman

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

A coreset (or core-set) of a dataset is its semantic compression with respect to a set of queries, such that querying the (small) coreset provably yields an approximate answer to querying the original (full) dataset. In the last decade,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-12-19 Soliman Nasser , Ibrahim Jubran , Dan Feldman

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

We investigate coresets - succinct, small summaries of large data sets - so that solutions found on the summary are provably competitive with solution found on the full data set. We provide an overview over the state-of-the-art in coreset…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-06 Olivier Bachem , Mario Lucic , Andreas Krause

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 a standard method in the machine learning toolbox, in particular for tabular data. Non-linear kernel SVMs often deliver highly accurate predictors, however, at the cost of long training times. That problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Tobias Glasmachers

A wide range of optimization problems arising in machine learning can be solved by gradient descent algorithms, and a central question in this area is how to efficiently compress a large-scale dataset so as to reduce the computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jiawei Huang , Ruomin Huang , Wenjie Liu , Nikolaos M. Freris , Hu Ding

The success of deep learning hinges on enormous data and large models, which require labor-intensive annotations and heavy computation costs. Subset selection is a fundamental problem that can play a key role in identifying smaller portions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Srikumar Ramalingam , Pranjal Awasthi , Sanjiv Kumar

In this paper we present a practical solution with performance guarantees to the problem of dimensionality reduction for very large scale sparse matrices. We show applications of our approach to computing the low rank approximation (reduced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-03-06 Dan Feldman , Mikhail Volkov , Daniela Rus

As machine learning tasks continue to evolve, the trend has been to gather larger datasets and train increasingly larger models. While this has led to advancements in accuracy, it has also escalated computational costs to unsustainable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Mohammad Jafari , Yimeng Zhang , Yihua Zhang , Sijia Liu

Training a Support Vector Machine (SVM) requires the solution of a quadratic programming problem (QP) whose computational complexity becomes prohibitively expensive for large scale datasets. Traditional optimization methods cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-29 Emanuele Frandi , Ricardo Nanculef , Maria Grazia Gasparo , Stefano Lodi , Claudio Sartori

As deep learning models continue to scale, the growing computational demands have amplified the need for effective coreset selection techniques. Coreset selection aims to accelerate training by identifying small, representative subsets of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Wei-Kai Chang , Rajiv Khanna

With input sizes becoming massive, coresets -- small yet representative summary of the input -- are relevant more than ever. A weighted set $C_w$ that is a subset of the input is an $\varepsilon$-coreset if the cost of any feasible solution…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Monika Henzinger , Sagar Kale

Support vector machine (SVM), is a popular kernel method for data classification that demonstrated its efficiency for a large range of practical applications. The method suffers, however, from some weaknesses including; time processing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-23 Lakhdar Remaki

Coreset (or core-set) is a small weighted \emph{subset} $Q$ of an input set $P$ with respect to a given \emph{monotonic} function $f:\mathbb{R}\to\mathbb{R}$ that \emph{provably} approximates its fitting loss $\sum_{p\in P}f(p\cdot x)$ to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Elad Tolochinsky , Ibrahim Jubran , Dan Feldman

Support vector machines (SVMs) are special kernel based methods and belong to the most successful learning methods since more than a decade. SVMs can informally be described as a kind of regularized M-estimators for functions and have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-07-26 Andreas Christmann , Robert Hable

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

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

A \emph{strong coreset} for the mean queries of a set $P$ in ${\mathbb{R}}^d$ is a small weighted subset $C\subseteq P$, which provably approximates its sum of squared distances to any center (point) $x\in {\mathbb{R}}^d$. A \emph{weak…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Alaa Maalouf , Ibrahim Jubran , Dan Feldman