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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

Over the past two decades, support vector machine (SVM) has become a popular supervised machine learning model, and plenty of distinct algorithms are designed separately based on different KKT conditions of the SVM model for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zhou Shuisheng , Zhou Wendi

We consider the problem of learning support vector machines robust to uncertainty. It has been established in the literature that typical loss functions, including the hinge loss, are sensible to data perturbations and outliers, thus…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Valentina Cepeda , Andrés Gómez , Shaoning Han

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

In this paper, we propose a novel bounded asymmetric elastic net ($L_{baen}$) loss function and combine it with the support vector machine (SVM), resulting in the BAEN-SVM. The $L_{baen}$ is bounded and asymmetric and can degrade to the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-09 Haiyan Du , Hu Yang

Regression, unlike classification, has lacked a comprehensive and effective approach to deal with cost-sensitive problems by the reuse (and not a re-training) of general regression models. In this paper, a wide variety of cost-sensitive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Jose Hernandez-Orallo

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

A novel linear classification method that possesses the merits of both the Support Vector Machine (SVM) and the Distance-weighted Discrimination (DWD) is proposed in this article. The proposed Distance-weighted Support Vector Machine method…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-10-09 Xingye Qiao , Lingsong Zhang

There is growing evidence that converting targets to soft targets in supervised learning can provide considerable gains in performance. Much of this work has considered classification, converting hard zero-one values to soft labels---such…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-06-13 Ehsan Imani , Martha White

Sparsity-inducing penalties are useful tools to design multiclass support vector machines (SVMs). In this paper, we propose a convex optimization approach for efficiently and exactly solving the multiclass SVM learning problem involving a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-15 G. Chierchia , Nelly Pustelnik , Jean-Christophe Pesquet , B. Pesquet-Popescu

This paper addresses the problem of efficiently classifying high-dimensional data over decentralized networks. Penalized support vector machines (SVMs) are widely used for high-dimensional classification tasks. However, the double…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-11 Canyi Chen , Nan Qiao , Liping Zhu

Recently, fully-connected and convolutional neural networks have been trained to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a wide variety of tasks such as speech recognition, image classification, natural language processing, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-24 Yichuan Tang

A new algorithm is presented for solving the soft-margin Support Vector Machine (SVM) optimization problem with an $\ell^{1}$ penalty. This algorithm is designed to require a modest number of passes over the data, which is an important…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-08-23 Jeffrey Hajewski , Suely Oliveira , David E. Stewart

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 Machine (SVM) has been used in a wide variety of classification problems. The original SVM uses the hinge loss function, which is non-differentiable and makes the problem difficult to solve in particular for regularized…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-12-01 Yangyang Xu , Ioannis Akrotirianakis , Amit Chakraborty

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

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

Most image segmentation algorithms are trained on binary masks formulated as a classification task per pixel. However, in applications such as medical imaging, this "black-and-white" approach is too constraining because the contrast between…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-19 Charley Gros , Andreanne Lemay , Julien Cohen-Adad

The recently introduced introspective variational autoencoder (IntroVAE) exhibits outstanding image generations, and allows for amortized inference using an image encoder. The main idea in IntroVAE is to train a VAE adversarially, using the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Tal Daniel , Aviv Tamar

In a multi-class classification problem, it is standard to model the output of a neural network as a categorical distribution conditioned on the inputs. The output must therefore be positive and sum to one, which is traditionally enforced…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2016-03-01 Alexandre de Brébisson , Pascal Vincent