Incremental Learning and Selective Sampling via Parametric Optimization Framework for SVM

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14 (NIPS 2001)

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Shai Fine, Katya Scheinberg

Abstract

We propose a framework based on a parametric quadratic program(cid:173) ming (QP) technique to solve the support vector machine (SVM) training problem. This framework, can be specialized to obtain two SVM optimization methods. The first solves the fixed bias prob(cid:173) lem, while the second starts with an optimal solution for a fixed bias problem and adjusts the bias until the optimal value is found. The later method can be applied in conjunction with any other ex(cid:173) isting technique which obtains a fixed bias solution. Moreover, the second method can also be used independently to solve the com(cid:173) plete SVM training problem. A combination of these two methods is more flexible than each individual method and, among other things, produces an incremental algorithm which exactly solve the 1-Norm Soft Margin SVM optimization problem. Applying Selec(cid:173) tive Sampling techniques may further boost convergence.