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Support Vector Machines (SVMs) are among the most fundamental tools for binary classification. In its simplest formulation, an SVM produces a hyperplane separating two classes of data using the largest possible margin to the data. The focus…

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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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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 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

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

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…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-25 Yixin Han , Jun Yu , Nan Zhang , Cheng Meng , Ping Ma , Wenxuan Zhong , Changliang Zou

The support vector machines (SVM) is one of the most widely used and practical optimization based classification models in machine learning because of its interpretability and flexibility to produce high quality results. However, the big…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Ehsan Sadrfaridpour , Korey Palmer , Ilya Safro

In this work we study binary classification problems where we assume that our training data is subject to uncertainty, i.e. the precise data points are not known. To tackle this issue in the field of robust machine learning the aim is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Jannis Kurtz

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) based on hinge loss have been extensively discussed and applied to various binary classification tasks. These SVMs achieve a balance between margin maximization and the minimization of slack due to outliers.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Haoxiang Sun

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

Support Vector Machines (SVM), a popular machine learning technique, has been applied to a wide range of domains such as science, finance, and social networks for supervised learning. Whether it is identifying high-risk patients by…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-06-20 Jeyanthi Narasimhan , Abhinav Vishnu , Lawrence Holder , Adolfy Hoisie

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…

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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

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

Although Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithm has a high generalization property to classify for unseen examples after training phase and it has small loss value, the algorithm is not suitable for real-life classification and regression…

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This article proposes a performance analysis of kernel least squares support vector machines (LS-SVMs) based on a random matrix approach, in the regime where both the dimension of data $p$ and their number $n$ grow large at the same rate.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-09 Zhenyu Liao , Romain Couillet

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

Disease classification is a crucial element of biomedical research. Recent studies have demonstrated that machine learning techniques, such as Support Vector Machine (SVM) modeling, produce similar or improved predictive capabilities in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-02 Jessica M. Rudd

A wide variety of machine learning algorithms such as support vector machine (SVM), minimax probability machine (MPM), and Fisher discriminant analysis (FDA), exist for binary classification. The purpose of this paper is to provide a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-22 Akiko Takeda , Hiroyuki Mitsugi , Takafumi Kanamori

Support vector machine (SVM) has been one of the most popular learning algorithms, with the central idea of maximizing the minimum margin, i.e., the smallest distance from the instances to the classification boundary. Recent theoretical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-07 Teng Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou