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In search settings, calibrating the scores during the ranking process to quantities such as click-through rates or relevance levels enhances a system's usefulness and trustworthiness for downstream users. While previous research has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Puxuan Yu , Daniel Cohen , Hemank Lamba , Joel Tetreault , Alex Jaimes

Considering the classification problem, we summarize the nonparallel support vector machines with the nonparallel hyperplanes to two types of frameworks. The first type constructs the hyperplanes separately. It solves a series of small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Chun-Na Li , Yuan-Hai Shao , Huajun Wang , Yu-Ting Zhao , Ling-Wei Huang , Naihua Xiu , Nai-Yang Deng

Support Vector Machines (SVM) have gathered significant acclaim as classifiers due to their successful implementation of Statistical Learning Theory. However, in the context of multiclass and multilabel settings, the reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Sambhav Jain Reshma Rastogi

Label Ranking (LR) corresponds to the problem of learning a hypothesis that maps features to rankings over a finite set of labels. We adopt a nonparametric regression approach to LR and obtain theoretical performance guarantees for this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Dimitris Fotakis , Alkis Kalavasis , Eleni Psaroudaki

This paper deals with an extension of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification problems where, in addition to maximize the margin, i.e., the width of strip defined by the two supporting hyperplanes, the minimum of the ordered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Alfredo Marín , Luisa I. Martínez-Merino , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

Benchmarks establish a standardized evaluation framework to systematically assess the performance of large language models (LLMs), facilitating objective comparisons and driving advancements in the field. However, existing benchmarks fail…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ziqian Zhang , Xingjian Hu , Yue Huang , Kai Zhang , Ruoxi Chen , Yixin Liu , Qingsong Wen , Kaidi Xu , Xiangliang Zhang , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Lichao Sun

In this paper, we consider the binary classification problem via distributed Support-Vector-Machines (SVM), where the idea is to train a network of agents, with limited share of data, to cooperatively learn the SVM classifier for the global…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Alireza Aghasi , Themistoklis Charalambous , Usman A. Khan

We here introduce a novel classification approach adopted from the nonlinear model identification framework, which jointly addresses the feature selection and classifier design tasks. The classifier is constructed as a polynomial expansion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-29 Aida Brankovic , Alessandro Falsone , Maria Prandini , Luigi Piroddi

It has been found that stochastic algorithms often find good solutions much more rapidly than inherently-batch approaches. Indeed, a very useful rule of thumb is that often, when solving a machine learning problem, an iterative technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-08-19 Andrew Cotter

Asymmetric data naturally exist in real life, such as directed graphs. Different from the common kernel methods requiring Mercer kernels, this paper tackles the asymmetric kernel-based learning problem. We describe a nonlinear extension of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Qinghua Tao , Francesco Tonin , Panagiotis Patrinos , Johan A. K. Suykens

The least-squares support vector machine is a frequently used kernel method for non-linear regression and classification tasks. Here we discuss several approximation algorithms for the least-squares support vector machine classifier. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-24 M. Andrecut

We investigate structured sparsity methods for variable selection in regression problems where the target depends nonlinearly on the inputs. We focus on general nonlinear functions not limiting a priori the function space to additive…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-17 Magda Gregorová , Alexandros Kalousis , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

In this paper, we propose a new mathematical optimization model for multiclass classification based on arrangements of hyperplanes. Our approach preserves the core support vector machine (SVM) paradigm of maximizing class separation while…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Víctor Blanco , Harshit Kothari , James Luedtke

Multi-label classification studies the task where each example belongs to multiple labels simultaneously. As a representative method, Ranking Support Vector Machine (Rank-SVM) aims to minimize the Ranking Loss and can also mitigate the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Guoqiang Wu , Ruobing Zheng , Yingjie Tian , Dalian Liu

We propose a general matrix-valued multiple kernel learning framework for high-dimensional nonlinear multivariate regression problems. This framework allows a broad class of mixed norm regularizers, including those that induce sparsity, to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Vikas Sindhwani , Ha Quang Minh , Aurelie Lozano

We propose a general matrix-valued multiple kernel learning framework for high-dimensional nonlinear multivariate regression problems. This framework allows a broad class of mixed norm regularizers, including those that induce sparsity, to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-03-11 Vikas Sindhwani , Minh Ha Quang , Aurelie C. Lozano

Rank-based Learning with deep neural network has been widely used for image cropping. However, the performance of ranking-based methods is often poor and this is mainly due to two reasons: 1) image cropping is a listwise ranking task rather…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-28 Weirui Lu , Xiaofen Xing , Bolun Cai , Xiangmin Xu

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

This work proposes a low complexity nonlinearity model and develops adaptive algorithms over it. The model is based on the decomposable---or rank-one, in tensor language---Volterra kernels. It may also be described as a product of FIR…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Felipe C. Pinheiro , Cassio G. Lopes

We consider the binary classification problem when data are large and subject to unknown but bounded uncertainties. We address the problem by formulating the nonlinear support vector machine training problem with robust optimization. To do…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-06-30 Nicolas Couellan , Sophie Jan