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In this paper, we study the embedded feature selection problem in linear Support Vector Machines (SVMs), in which a cardinality constraint is employed, leading to an interpretable classification model. The problem is NP-hard due to the…

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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…

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This work addresses the issue of large covariance matrix estimation in high-dimensional statistical analysis. Recently, improved iterative algorithms with positive-definite guarantee have been developed. However, these algorithms cannot be…

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Conformal prediction methods provide statistically rigorous marginal coverage guarantees for machine learning models, but such guarantees fail to account for algorithmic biases, thereby undermining fairness and trust. This paper introduces…

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Ensuring fairness in machine learning is a critical and challenging task, as biased data representations often lead to unfair predictions. To address this, we propose Deep Fair Learning, a framework that integrates nonlinear sufficient…

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Decision making is a process that is extremely prone to different biases. In this paper we consider learning fair representations that aim at removing nuisance (sensitive) information from the decision process. For this purpose, we propose…

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With data sizes constantly expanding, and with classical machine learning algorithms that analyze such data requiring larger and larger amounts of computation time and storage space, the need to distribute computation and memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Aruna Govada , Shree Ranjani , Aditi Viswanathan , S. K. Sahay

The classical hinge-loss support vector machines (SVMs) model is sensitive to outlier observations due to the unboundedness of its loss function. To circumvent this issue, recent studies have focused on non-convex loss functions, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Ítalo Santana , Breno Serrano , Maximilian Schiffer , Thibaut Vidal

An emerging definition of fairness in machine learning requires that models are oblivious to demographic user information, e.g., a user's gender or age should not influence the model. Personalized recommender systems are particularly prone…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Bjørnar Vassøy , Helge Langseth , Benjamin Kille

We present DCSVM, an efficient algorithm for multi-class classification using Support Vector Machines. DCSVM is a divide and conquer algorithm which relies on data sparsity in high dimensional space and performs a smart partitioning of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-24 Duleep Rathgamage Don , Ionut E. Iacob

Plant breeders and agricultural researchers can increase crop productivity by identifying desirable features, disease resistance, and nutritional content by analysing the Dry Bean dataset. This study analyses and compares different Support…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Anant Mehta , Prajit Sengupta , Divisha Garg , Harpreet Singh , Yosi Shacham Diamand

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

We study the computational problem of computing a fair means clustering of discrete vectors, which admits an equivalent formulation as editing a colored matrix into one with few distinct color-balanced rows by changing at most $k$ values.…

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A novel kernel-based support vector machine (SVM) for graph classification is proposed. The SVM feature space mapping consists of a sequence of graph convolutional layers, which generates a vector space representation for each vertex,…

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The support vector machine (SVM) is a widely used method for classification. Although many efforts have been devoted to develop efficient solvers, it remains challenging to apply SVM to large-scale problems. A nice property of SVM is that…

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In recent years, considerable attention has been devoted to the regularization models due to the presence of high-dimensional data in scientific research. Sparse support vector machine (SVM) are useful tools in high-dimensional data…

Computation · Statistics 2023-12-27 Jiawei Wen

To reduce human error and prejudice, many high-stakes decisions have been turned over to machine algorithms. However, recent research suggests that this does not remove discrimination, and can perpetuate harmful stereotypes. While…

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We propose new methods for Support Vector Machines (SVMs) using tree architecture for multi-class classi- fication. In each node of the tree, we select an appropriate binary classifier using entropy and generalization error estimation, then…

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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

The support vector machine (SVM) is an important class of learning machines for function approach, pattern recognition, and time-serious prediction, etc. It maps samples into the feature space by so-called support vectors of selected…

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