Title
Regularized nonsmooth Newton method for multi-class support vector machines.
Abstract
Multi-class classification is an important and on-going research subject in machine learning. Recently, the ν-K-SVCR method was proposed by the authors for multi-class classification. As many optimization problems have to be solved in multi-class classification, it is extremely important to develop an algorithm that can solve those optimization problems efficiently. In this article, the optimization problem in the ν-K-SVCR method is reformulated as an affine box constrained variational inequality problem with a positive semi-definite matrix, and a regularized version of the nonsmooth Newton method that uses the D-gap function as a merit function is applied to solve the resulting problems. The proposed algorithm fully exploits the typical feature of the ν-K-SVCR method, which enables us to reduce the size of Newton equations significantly. This indicates that the algorithm can be implemented efficiently in practice. The preliminary numerical experiments on benchmark data sets show that the proposed method is considerably faster than the standard Matlab routine used in the original ν-K-SVCR method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1080/10556780600834745
Optimization Methods and Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
variational inequality problem,d-gap function,regularized nonsmooth,multi-class classification,optimization problem,affine box,merit function,multi-class support vector machine,proposed algorithm,k-svcr method,nonsmooth newton method,machine learning,multi class classification,newton method,support vector,positive semi definite,support vector machine
Affine transformation,Mathematical optimization,Matrix (mathematics),Support vector machine,Newton's method in optimization,Optimization problem,Mathematics,Multiclass classification,Variational inequality,Newton's method
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22
1
1055-6788
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
16
0.71
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ping Zhong1160.71
Masao Fukushima22050172.73