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In recent years, feature selection has become a challenging problem in several machine learning fields, such as classification problems. Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a well-known technique applied in classification tasks. Various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Asunción Jiménez-Cordero , Juan Miguel Morales , Salvador Pineda

Stochastic variational inference (SVI) plays a key role in Bayesian deep learning. Recently various divergences have been proposed to design the surrogate loss for variational inference. We present a simple upper bound of the evidence as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Chunlin Ji , Haige Shen

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

One of the most tedious tasks in the application of machine learning is model selection, i.e. hyperparameter selection. Fortunately, recent progress has been made in the automation of this process, through the use of sequential model-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Alexandre Lacoste , Hugo Larochelle , François Laviolette , Mario Marchand

We consider classification tasks in the regime of scarce labeled training data in high dimensional feature space, where specific expert knowledge is also available. We propose a new hybrid optimization algorithm that solves the elastic-net…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-18 Zhiwei Qin , Xiaocheng Tang , Ioannis Akrotirianakis , Amit Chakraborty

In conventional prediction tasks, a machine learning algorithm outputs a single best model that globally optimizes its objective function, which typically is accuracy. Therefore, users cannot access the other models explicitly. In contrast…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Kentaro Kanamori , Satoshi Hara , Masakazu Ishihata , Hiroki Arimura

Bayesian optimization (BO) has gained attention as an efficient algorithm for black-box optimization of expensive-to-evaluate systems, where the BO algorithm iteratively queries the system and suggests new trials based on a probabilistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Eike Cramer , Luis Kutschat , Oliver Stollenwerk , Joel A. Paulson , Alexander Mitsos

Spins in gated semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are a promising platform for Hubbard model simulation inaccessible to computation. Precise control of the tunnel couplings by tuning voltages on metallic gates is vital for a successful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-07 Ludmila Szulakowska , Jun Dai

An importance sampling and bagging approach to solving the support vector machine (SVM) problem in the context of large databases is presented and evaluated. Our algorithm builds on the nearest neighbors ideas presented in Camelo at al.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-08-20 R. Bárcenas , M. D. Gónzalez--Lima , A. J. Quiroz

In this paper we propose the use of quantum genetic algorithm to optimize the support vector machine (SVM) for human action recognition. The Microsoft Kinect sensor can be used for skeleton tracking, which provides the joints' position…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-18 Yafeng Liu , Shimin Feng , Zhikai Zhao , Enjie Ding

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

Bayesian optimization (BO) has become an indispensable tool for autonomous decision-making across diverse applications from autonomous vehicle control to accelerated drug and materials discovery. With the growing interest in self-driving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Gary Tom , Stanley Lo , Samantha Corapi , Alan Aspuru-Guzik , Benjamin Sanchez-Lengeling

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

Advances in statistical learning theory present the opportunity to develop statistical models of quantum many-body systems exhibiting remarkable predictive power. The potential of such ``theory-thin'' approaches is illustrated with the…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 John W. Clark , Haochen Li

Adjustable hyperparameters of machine learning models typically impact various key trade-offs such as accuracy, fairness, robustness, or inference cost. Our goal in this paper is to find a configuration that adheres to user-specified limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Bracha Laufer-Goldshtein , Adam Fisch , Regina Barzilay , Tommi Jaakkola

The support vector machines (SVM) is a powerful classifier used for binary classification to improve the prediction accuracy. However, the non-differentiability of the SVM hinge loss function can lead to computational difficulties in high…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-17 Rachid Kharoubi , Abdallah Mkhadri , Karim Oualkacha

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

Bayesian optimization is a class of data efficient model based algorithms typically focused on global optimization. We consider the more general case where a user is faced with multiple problems that each need to be optimized conditional on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-11-04 Michael Pearce , Janis Klaise , Matthew Groves

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

Coarse-grained (CG) force field models are extensively utilised in material simulations due to their scalability. Traditionally, these models are parameterized using hybrid strategies that integrate top-down and bottom-up approaches;…