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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

It is known that the classification performance of Support Vector Machine (SVM) can be conveniently affected by the different parameters of the kernel tricks and the regularization parameter, C. Thus, in this article, we propose a study in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-07-23 Rimah Amami , Dorra Ben Ayed , Noureddine Ellouze

The mixture cure rate model is the most commonly used cure rate model in the literature. In the context of mixture cure rate model, the standard approach to model the effect of covariates on the cured or uncured probability is to use a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-08-23 Suvra Pal , Yingwei Peng , Sandip Barui , Pei Wang

In many applications, input data are sampled functions taking their values in infinite dimensional spaces rather than standard vectors. This fact has complex consequences on data analysis algorithms that motivate modifications of them. In…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fabrice Rossi , Nathalie Villa

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 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

In traditional boosting algorithms, the focus on misclassified training samples emphasizes their importance based on difficulty during the learning process. While using a standard Support Vector Machine (SVM) as a weak learner in an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Junbo Jacob Lian

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) 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

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

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 powerful classification technique based on the idea of structural risk minimization. Use of kernel function enables curse of dimensionality to be addressed. However, proper kernel function for certain problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Arindam Chaudhuri

This paper aims at improving the classification accuracy of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier with Sequential Minimal Optimization (SMO) training algorithm in order to properly classify failure and normal instances from oil and gas…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Zhiyuan Chen , Isa Dino , Nik Ahmad Akram

Classifiers and rating scores are prone to implicitly codifying biases, which may be present in the training data, against protected classes (i.e., age, gender, or race). So it is important to understand how to design classifiers and scores…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Matt Olfat , Anil Aswani

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

The support vector machine (SVM) has an asymptotic behavior that parallels that of the quasi-maximum likelihood estimator (QMLE) for binary outcomes generated by a binary choice model (BCM), although it is not a QMLE. We show that, under…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-02-02 Yoosoon Chang , Joon Y. Park , Guo Yan

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

The support vector machine (SVM) is an important class of learning machines for function approach, pattern recognition, and time-serious prediction, etc. It maps samples into the feature space by so-called support vectors of selected…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-02-15 Hong Zhao

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

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