Support vector machines for interval discriminant analysis

The use of data represented by intervals can be caused by imprecision in the input information, incompleteness in patterns, discretization procedures, prior knowledge insertion or speed-up learning. All the existing support vector machine (SVM) approaches working on interval data use local kernels b...

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Autores: Angulo, Cecilio, Anguita, Davide, González Abril, Luis, Ortega Ramírez, Juan Antonio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2008
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/142985
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/142985
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2007.12.025
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Interval analysis
Kernel machines
Convex optimization
Classification
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Sumario:The use of data represented by intervals can be caused by imprecision in the input information, incompleteness in patterns, discretization procedures, prior knowledge insertion or speed-up learning. All the existing support vector machine (SVM) approaches working on interval data use local kernels based on a certain distance between intervals, either by combining the interval distance with a kernel or by explicitly defining an interval kernel. This article introduces a new procedure for the linearly separable case, derived from convex optimization theory, inserting information directly into the standard SVM in the form of intervals, without taking any particular distance into consideration.