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When neural circuits learn to perform a task, it is often the case that there are many sets of synaptic connections that are consistent with the task. However, only a small number of possible solutions are robust to noise in the input and…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-31 Ran Rubin , Haim Sompolinsky

We study the typical learning properties of the recently introduced Soft Margin Classifiers (SMCs), learning realizable and unrealizable tasks, with the tools of Statistical Mechanics. We derive analytically the behaviour of the learning…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2009-11-07 Sebastian Risau-Gusman , Mirta B. Gordon

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 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

Several decades ago, Support Vector Machines (SVMs) were introduced for performing binary classification tasks, under a supervised framework. Nowadays, they often outperform other supervised methods and remain one of the most popular…

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a powerful tool in binary classification, known to attain excellent misclassification rates. On the other hand, many realworld classification problems, such as those found in medical diagnosis, churn or fraud…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-25 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rafael Blanquero , Emilio Carrizosa , Pepa Ramírez-Cobo

Support vector machine (SVM) is a well known binary linear classification model in supervised learning. This paper proposes a globalized distributionally robust chance-constrained (GDRC) SVM model based on core sets to address uncertainties…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Yueyao Li , Chenglong Bao , Wenxun Xing

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

In this paper, we propose a maximum margin classifier that deals with uncertainty in data input. More specifically, we reformulate the SVM framework such that each training example can be modeled by a multi-dimensional Gaussian distribution…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-21 Christos Tzelepis , Vasileios Mezaris , Ioannis Patras

The Support Vector Machine (SVM) is one of the most widely used classification methods. In this paper, we consider the soft-margin SVM used on data points with independent features, where the sample size $n$ and the feature dimension $p$…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-02 Haoyang Liu

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

In this paper, we use tools from rate-distortion theory to establish new upper bounds on the generalization error of statistical distributed learning algorithms. Specifically, there are $K$ clients whose individually chosen models are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-23 Milad Sefidgaran , Romain Chor , Abdellatif Zaidi

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

Deep neural networks generalize well despite being exceedingly overparameterized and being trained without explicit regularization. This curious phenomenon has inspired extensive research activity in establishing its statistical principles:…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-09-16 Ke Wang , Christos Thrampoulidis

We address the problem of model selection for Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification. For fixed functional form of the kernel, model selection amounts to tuning kernel parameters and the slack penalty coefficient $C$. We begin by…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Carl Gold , Peter Sollich

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

We derive a new margin-based regularization formulation, termed multi-margin regularization (MMR), for deep neural networks (DNNs). The MMR is inspired by principles that were applied in margin analysis of shallow linear classifiers, e.g.,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-15 Berry Weinstein , Shai Fine , Yacov Hel-Or

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

This article studies the achievable guarantees on the error rates of certain learning algorithms, with particular focus on refining logarithmic factors. Many of the results are based on a general technique for obtaining bounds on the error…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-13 Steve Hanneke

Support vector machines (SVMs) have been successful in solving many computer vision tasks including image and video category recognition especially for small and mid-scale training problems. The principle of these non-parametric models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Hichem Sahbi