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Multicategory proximal support vector machine classifiers. (English) Zbl 1101.68758
Summary: Given a dataset, each element of which labeled by one of $$k$$ labels, we construct by a very fast algorithm, a $$k$$-category proximal support vector machine (PSVM) classifier. Proximal support vector machines and related approaches can be interpreted as ridge regression applied to classification problems. Extensive computational results have shown the effectiveness of PSVM for two-class classification problems where the separating plane is constructed in time that can be as little as two orders of magnitude shorter than that of conventional support vector machines. When PSVM is applied to problems with more than two classes, the well known one-from-the-rest approach is a natural choice in order to take advantage of its fast performance. However, there is a drawback associated with this one-from-the-rest approach. The resulting two-class problems are often very unbalanced, leading in some cases to poor performance. We propose balancing the $$k$$ classes and a novel Newton refinement modification to PSVM in order to deal with this problem. Computational results indicate that these two modifications preserve the speed of PSVM while often leading to significant test set improvement over a plain PSVM one-from-the-rest application. The modified approach is considerably faster than other one-from-the-rest methods that use conventional SVM formulations, while still giving comparable test set correctness.

##### MSC:
 68T05 Learning and adaptive systems in artificial intelligence
##### Software:
CLAPACK; CPLEX; Kernel-Machines; LAPACK; Matlab; RSVM; SSVM; UCI-ml
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