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We propose a novel criterion for support vector machine learning: maximizing the margin in the input space, not in the feature (Hilbert) space. This criterion is a discriminative version of the principal curve proposed by Hastie et al. The…
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We show that the multi-class support vector machine (MSVM) proposed by Lee et. al. (2004), can be viewed as a MAP estimation procedure under an appropriate probabilistic interpretation of the classifier. We also show that this…
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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…
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