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We propose $\ell_1$ norm regularized quadratic surface support vector machine models for binary classification in supervised learning. We establish their desired theoretical properties, including the existence and uniqueness of the optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Ahmad Mousavi , Zheming Gao , Lanshan Han , Alvin Lim

Feature selection in learning to rank has recently emerged as a crucial issue. Whereas several preprocessing approaches have been proposed, only a few works have been focused on integrating the feature selection into the learning process.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-07-03 Léa Laporte , Rémi Flamary , Stephane Canu , Sébastien Déjean , Josiane Mothe

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-04 Allan Grønlund , Lior Kamma , Kasper Green Larsen

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

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

Support vector machines (SVMs) are special kernel based methods and belong to the most successful learning methods since more than a decade. SVMs can informally be described as a kind of regularized M-estimators for functions and have…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-07-26 Andreas Christmann , Robert Hable

Support vector machine (SVM) training is an active research area since the dawn of the method. In recent years there has been increasing interest in specialized solvers for the important case of linear models. The algorithm presented by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-02-25 Tobias Glasmachers , Ürün Dogan

One of the limiting factors of using support vector machines (SVMs) in large scale applications are their super-linear computational requirements in terms of the number of training samples. To address this issue, several approaches that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-07-24 Mona Eberts , Ingo Steinwart

Support vector machines (SVMs) are a standard method in the machine learning toolbox, in particular for tabular data. Non-linear kernel SVMs often deliver highly accurate predictors, however, at the cost of long training times. That problem…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Tobias Glasmachers

The time complexity of support vector machines (SVMs) prohibits training on huge data sets with millions of data points. Recently, multilevel approaches to train SVMs have been developed to allow for time-efficient training on huge data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Sebastian Schlag , Matthias Schmitt , Christian Schulz

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

For a variety of regularized optimization problems in machine learning, algorithms computing the entire solution path have been developed recently. Most of these methods are quadratic programs that are parameterized by a single parameter,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-31 Bernd Gärtner , Martin Jaggi , Clément Maria

One Class Slab Support Vector Machines (OCSSVM) have turned out to be better in terms of accuracy in certain classes of classification problems than the traditional SVMs and One Class SVMs or even other One class classifiers. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Bagesh Kumar , Ayush Sinha , Sourin Chakrabarti , O. P. Vyas

When applying the support vector machine (SVM) to high-dimensional classification problems, we often impose a sparse structure in the SVM to eliminate the influences of the irrelevant predictors. The lasso and other variable selection…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-02-22 Seongho Wu , Hui Zou , Ming Yuan

Classification and probability estimation are fundamental tasks with broad applications across modern machine learning and data science, spanning fields such as biology, medicine, engineering, and computer science. Recent development of…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-03-25 Liyun Zeng , Hao Helen Zhang

Mathematical modelling, particularly through approaches such as structured sparse support vector machines (SS-SVM), plays a crucial role in processing data with complex feature structures, yet efficient algorithms for distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Rongmei Liang , Zizheng Liu , Xiaofei Wu , Jingwen Tu

This paper presents the impact of using quantization on the efficiency of multi-class text classification in the training process of a support vector machine (SVM). This work is focused on comparing the efficiency of SVM model trained using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Dominik Żurek , Marcin Pietroń

The previous support vector machine(SVM) including $0/1$ loss SVM, hinge loss SVM, ramp loss SVM, truncated pinball loss SVM, and others, overlooked the degree of penalty for the correctly classified samples within the margin. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Yan Li , Liping Zhang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-12-17 Ferhat Özgür Çatak , Mehmet Erdal Balaban

We consider regularized support vector machines (SVMs) and show that they are precisely equivalent to a new robust optimization formulation. We show that this equivalence of robust optimization and regularization has implications for both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-02-25 Huan Xu , Constantine Caramanis , Shie Mannor