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Weakly supervised multi-label classification (WSML) task, which is to learn a multi-label classification using partially observed labels per image, is becoming increasingly important due to its huge annotation cost. In this work, we first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Youngwook Kim , Jae Myung Kim , Zeynep Akata , Jungwoo Lee

The support vector machine (SVM) is one of the most successful learning methods for solving classification problems. Despite its popularity, SVM has a serious drawback, that is sensitivity to outliers in training samples. The penalty on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-09-04 Takafumi Kanamori , Shuhei Fujiwara , Akiko Takeda

Support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful machine learning algorithm to handle classification tasks. However, the classical SVM is developed for binary problems with the assumption of balanced datasets. Obviously, the multi-class…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Zhong-Liang Zhang , Jie Yang , Jian-Ming Ru , Xiao-Xi Zhao , Xing-Gang Luo

In many real-world prediction tasks, class labels contain information about the relative order between labels that are not captured by commonly used loss functions such as multicategory cross-entropy. Recently, the preference for unimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jaime S. Cardoso , Ricardo Cruz , Tomé Albuquerque

Recent works have studied implicit biases in deep learning, especially the behavior of last-layer features and classifier weights. However, they usually need to simplify the intermediate dynamics under gradient flow or gradient descent due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Xiong Zhou , Xianming Liu , Hanzhang Wang , Deming Zhai , Junjun Jiang , Xiangyang Ji

Multiclass probability estimation is the problem of estimating conditional probabilities of a data point belonging to a class given its covariate information. It has broad applications in statistical analysis and data science. Recently a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-09-23 Liyun Zeng , Hao Helen Zhang

The top-$k$ error is often employed to evaluate performance for challenging classification tasks in computer vision as it is designed to compensate for ambiguity in ground truth labels. This practical success motivates our theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Forest Yang , Sanmi Koyejo

This paper aims at refined error analysis for binary classification using support vector machine (SVM) with Gaussian kernel and convex loss. Our first result shows that for some loss functions such as the truncated quadratic loss and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-06 Shao-Bo Lin , Jinshan Zeng , Xiangyu Chang

In many contexts, customized and weighted classification scores are designed in order to evaluate the goodness of the predictions carried out by neural networks. However, there exists a discrepancy between the maximization of such scores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Francesco Marchetti , Sabrina Guastavino , Cristina Campi , Federico Benvenuto , Michele Piana

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 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

Van Rooyen et al. introduced a notion of convex loss functions being robust to random classification noise, and established that the "unhinged" loss function is robust in this sense. In this note we study the accuracy of binary classifiers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Philip M. Long , Rocco A. Servedio

Multiview learning (MvL) is an advancing domain in machine learning, leveraging multiple data perspectives to enhance model performance through view-consistency and view-discrepancy. Despite numerous successful multiview-based SVM models,…

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This paper introduces a general multi-class approach to weakly supervised classification. Inferring the labels and learning the parameters of the model is usually done jointly through a block-coordinate descent algorithm such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 Armand Joulin , Francis Bach

Binary classification rules based on covariates typically depend on simple loss functions such as zero-one misclassification. Some cases may require more complex loss functions. For example, individual-level monitoring of HIV-infected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-05-14 Yizhen Xu , Tao Liu , Michael J. Daniels , Rami Kantor , Ann Mwangi , Joseph W. Hogan

High-dimensional classification problems often rely on the Lasso-penalized linear Support Vector Machines (SVMs). However, the double non-smoothness induced by the hinge loss and Lasso penalty in this model makes statistical inference…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-18 Shuya Zhou , Junwen Xia , Jingxiao Zhang

This paper presents a review on methods for class-imbalanced learning with the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and its variants. We first explain the structure of SVM and its variants and discuss their inefficiency in learning with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Salim Rezvani , Farhad Pourpanah , Chee Peng Lim , Q. M. Jonathan Wu

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

We study a family of loss functions named label-distributionally robust (LDR) losses for multi-class classification that are formulated from distributionally robust optimization (DRO) perspective, where the uncertainty in the given label…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Dixian Zhu , Yiming Ying , Tianbao Yang

Support Vector Machine (SVM) stands out as a prominent machine learning technique widely applied in practical pattern recognition tasks. It achieves binary classification by maximizing the "margin", which represents the minimum distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Zhezheng Hao , Feiping Nie , Rong Wang