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This paper deals with an extension of the Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification problems where, in addition to maximize the margin, i.e., the width of strip defined by the two supporting hyperplanes, the minimum of the ordered…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Alfredo Marín , Luisa I. Martínez-Merino , Justo Puerto , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

The support vector machine (SVM) is a supervised learning algorithm that finds a maximum-margin linear classifier, often after mapping the data to a high-dimensional feature space via the kernel trick. Recent work has demonstrated that in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-16 Chiraag Kaushik , Andrew D. McRae , Mark A. Davenport , Vidya Muthukumar

Twin support vector machine (TSVM), a variant of support vector machine (SVM), has garnered significant attention due to its $3/4$ times lower computational complexity compared to SVM. However, due to the utilization of the hinge loss…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Mushir Akhtar , M. Tanveer , Mohd. Arshad

Although support vector machines (SVMs) are theoretically well understood, their underlying optimization problem becomes very expensive, if, for example, hundreds of thousands of samples and a non-linear kernel are considered. Several…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-09 Philipp Thomann , Ingrid Blaschzyk , Mona Meister , Ingo Steinwart

The Support Vector Machine using Privileged Information (SVM+) has been proposed to train a classifier to utilize the additional privileged information that is only available in the training phase but not available in the test phase. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Xinxing Xu , Joey Tianyi Zhou , IvorW. Tsang , Zheng Qin , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

Support vector machines (SVMs) are an important tool in modern data analysis. Traditionally, support vector machines have been fitted via quadratic programming, either using purpose-built or off-the-shelf algorithms. We present an…

Computation · Statistics 2017-05-15 Hien D. Nguyen , Geoffrey J. McLachlan

Support vector machines (SVMs) are invaluable tools for many practical applications in artificial intelligence, e.g., classification and event recognition. However, popular SVM solvers are not sufficiently efficient for applications with a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2011-10-02 Tianyi Zhou , Dacheng Tao , Xindong Wu

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

We propose an improved version of the SMO algorithm for training classification and regression SVMs, based on a Conjugate Descent procedure. This new approach only involves a modest increase on the computational cost of each iteration but,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-03-20 Alberto Torres-Barrán , Carlos Alaíz , José R. Dorronsoro

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

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

Support vector machine (SVM) is a powerful classification method that has achieved great success in many fields. Since its performance can be seriously impaired by redundant covariates, model selection techniques are widely used for SVM…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-07-25 Chaoxia Yuan , Chao Ying , Zhou Yu , Fang Fang

Support vector machines (SVMs) are widely used and constitute one of the best examined and used machine learning models for two-class classification. Classification in SVM is based on a score procedure, yielding a deterministic…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-10-11 Sandra Benítez-Peña , Rafael Blanquero , Emilio Carrizosa , Pepa Ramírez-Cobo

Support vector machine (SVM) has achieved many successes in machine learning, especially for a small sample problem. As a famous extension of the traditional SVM, the $\nu$ support vector machine ($\nu$-SVM) has shown outstanding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zhiji Yang , Wanyi Chen , Huan Zhang , Yitian Xu , Lei Shi , Jianhua Zhao

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

This paper proposes a robust classification model, based on support vector machine (SVM), which simultaneously deals with outliers detection and feature selection. The classifier is built considering the ramp loss margin error and it…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-03-13 Marta Baldomero-Naranjo , Luisa I. Martínez-Merino , Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía

A smoothing 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…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Ibrahim Emirahmetoglu , Jeffrey Hajewski , Suely Oliveira , David E. Stewart

In this paper, we consider asymptotic properties of the support vector machine (SVM) in high-dimension, low-sample-size (HDLSS) settings. We show that the hard-margin linear SVM holds a consistency property in which misclassification rates…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-02-28 Yugo Nakayama , Kazuyoshi Yata , Makoto Aoshima

We review the concept of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and discuss examples of their use in a number of scenarios. Several SVM implementations have been used in HEP and we exemplify this algorithm using the Toolkit for Multivariate…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2017-12-06 Adrian Bevan , Rodrigo Gamboa Goñi , Jon Hays , Tom Stevenson

We propose a new convex loss for Support Vector Machines, both for the binary classification and for the regression models. Therefore, we show the mathematical derivation of the dual problems and we experiment with them on several small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Filippo Portera