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ISNN
2005
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Scaling the Kernel Function to Improve Performance of the Support Vector Machine
Abstract. The present study investigates a geometrical method for optimizing the kernel function of a support vector machine. The method is an improvement of the one proposed in [4...
Peter Williams, Sheng Li, Jianfeng Feng, Si Wu
GECCO
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Evolutionary strategies for multi-scale radial basis function kernels in support vector machines
In support vector machines (SVM), the kernel functions which compute dot product in feature space significantly affect the performance of classifiers. Each kernel function is suit...
Tanasanee Phienthrakul, Boonserm Kijsirikul
AIIA
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
A Semantic Kernel to Exploit Linguistic Knowledge
Abstract. Improving accuracy in Information Retrieval tasks via semantic information is a complex problem characterized by three main aspects: the document representation model, th...
Roberto Basili, Marco Cammisa, Alessandro Moschitt...
KES
2007
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Inductive Concept Retrieval and Query Answering with Semantic Knowledge Bases Through Kernel Methods
This work deals with the application of kernel methods to structured relational settings such as semantic knowledge bases expressed in Description Logics. Our method integrates a n...
Nicola Fanizzi, Claudia d'Amato
IJCNN
2007
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Agnostic Learning versus Prior Knowledge in the Design of Kernel Machines
Abstract— The optimal model parameters of a kernel machine are typically given by the solution of a convex optimisation problem with a single global optimum. Obtaining the best p...
Gavin C. Cawley, Nicola L. C. Talbot
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Generalized Chebyshev Kernels for Support Vector Classification
In this paper, a method to generalize previously proposed Chebyshev Kernel function is presented for Support Vector Classification in order to obtain more robust and higher classi...
Sedat Ozer, Chi Hau Chen
ICPR
2008
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Kernel functions for robust 3D surface registration with spectral embeddings
Registration of 3D surfaces is a critical step for shape analysis. Recent studies show that spectral representations based on intrinsic pairwise geodesic distances between points ...
Xiuwen Liu, Arturo Donate, Matthew Jemison, Washin...
ICML
2005
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Building Sparse Large Margin Classifiers
This paper presents an approach to build Sparse Large Margin Classifiers (SLMC) by adding one more constraint to the standard Support Vector Machine (SVM) training problem. The ad...
Bernhard Schölkopf, Gökhan H. Bakir, Min...
ICML
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Learning a kernel function for classification with small training samples
When given a small sample, we show that classification with SVM can be considerably enhanced by using a kernel function learned from the training data prior to discrimination. Thi...
Tomer Hertz, Aharon Bar-Hillel, Daphna Weinshall
ICML
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A kernel path algorithm for support vector machines
The choice of the kernel function which determines the mapping between the input space and the feature space is of crucial importance to kernel methods. The past few years have se...
Gang Wang, Dit-Yan Yeung, Frederick H. Lochovsky