Title
A weighting initialization strategy for weighted support vector machines
Abstract
This paper presents a problem independent weighting strategy for weighted support vector machines (SVMs). SVMs can be applied with a weighting to each training vector to reflect the importance of different classes or training samples. Weightings are often assigned to the two classes inversely proportional to the sample count of each class, or according to a priori knowledge. Such a strategy can be applied to skewed data sets to balance the importance, error contribution and cost between the two classes. In this paper we propose a strategy to give each training pattern a weighting according to their distances to the classifier. The strategy regards the importance of the training patterns to the training process but not the importance of the data to the problem, thus it is suitable for general SVM applications. Experiments show that the performance of the proposed method is competitive to standard SVM while the training processes are even sped up.
Year
DOI
Venue
2005
10.1007/11551188_31
ICAPR (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
problem independent weighting strategy,skewed data,general svm application,standard svm,training pattern,different class,weighted support vector machine,training vector,weighting initialization strategy,training process,training sample,support vector machine,a priori knowledge
Data set,Weighting,Load balancing (computing),Computer science,Support vector machine,A priori and a posteriori,Artificial intelligence,Initialization,A-weighting,Classifier (linguistics),Machine learning
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
3686
0302-9743
3-540-28757-4
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.44
8
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kuo-Ping Wu123712.06
Sheng-De Wang272068.13