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Support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classifier known for accuracy, flexibility, and robustness. However, its intensive computation has hindered its application to large-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose a new optimal leverage…

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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

Support vector regression (SVR) is one of the most popular machine learning algorithms aiming to generate the optimal regression curve through maximizing the minimal margin of selected training samples, i.e., support vectors. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Gaoyang Li , Jinyu Yang , Chunguo Wu , Qin Ma

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 is an important and fundamental technique in machine learning. Soft-margin SVM models have stronger generalization performance compared with the hard-margin SVM. Most existing works use the hinge-loss function which…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Lu Sitong , Li Qinana

The support vector machine (SVM) and minimum Euclidean norm least squares regression are two fundamentally different approaches to fitting linear models, but they have recently been connected in models for very high-dimensional data through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-28 Navid Ardeshir , Clayton Sanford , Daniel Hsu

A support vector machine (SVM) is an algorithm that finds a hyperplane which optimally separates labeled data points in $\mathbb{R}^n$ into positive and negative classes. The data points on the margin of this separating hyperplane are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Henry Adams , Elin Farnell , Brittany Story

The support vector machine (SVM) algorithm is well known to the computer learning community for its very good practical results. The goal of the present paper is to study this algorithm from a statistical perspective, using tools of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2008-12-18 Gilles Blanchard , Olivier Bousquet , Pascal Massart

Support vector machines (SVMs) are widely used and constitute one of the best examined and used machine learning models for two-class classification. Classification in SVM is based on a score procedure, yielding a deterministic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rafael Blanquero , Emilio Carrizosa , Pepa Ramírez-Cobo

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

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is an efficient classification approach, which finds a hyperplane to separate data from different classes. This hyperplane is determined by support vectors. In existing SVM formulations, the objective function…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-09 Shuai Zheng , Chris Ding

This study introduces a novel formulation to enhance Support Vector Machines (SVMs) in handling class imbalance and noise. Unlike the conventional Soft Margin SVM, which penalizes the magnitude of constraint violations, the proposed model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Seyed Mojtaba Mohasel , Hamidreza Koosha

Classification is an important topic in statistics and machine learning with great potential in many real applications. In this paper, we investigate two popular large margin classification methods, Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-10-14 Xingye Qiao , Lingsong Zhang

Support vector machines (SVMs) appeared in the early nineties as optimal margin classifiers in the context of Vapnik's statistical learning theory. Since then SVMs have been successfully applied to real-world data analysis problems, often…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-16 Javier M. Moguerza , Alberto Muñoz

Using a support vector machine requires to set two types of hyperparameters: the soft margin parameter C and the parameters of the kernel. To perform this model selection task, the method of choice is cross-validation. Its leave-one-out…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Emmanuel Monfrini , Yann Guermeur

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

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

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) can classify data sets along highly non-linear decision boundaries because of the kernel-trick. This expressiveness comes at a price: During test-time, the SVM classifier needs to compute the kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-03 Zhixiang Xu , Jacob R. Gardner , Stephen Tyree , Kilian Q. Weinberger

This paper proposes a robust classification model, based on support vector machine (SVM), which simultaneously deals with outliers detection and feature selection. The classifier is built considering the ramp loss margin error and it…

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