An Optimization Method for Selecting Parameters in Support Vector Machines

Authors:
Yulin Dong;Zhonghang Xia;Manghui Tu;Guangming Xing
Affiliations:
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Venue:
ICMLA '07 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications
Year:
2007

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Abstract

It has been shown that the cost parameters and kernel parameters are critical in the performance of Support Vector Machines (SVMs). A standard parameter selection method compares parameters among a discrete set of values, called the candidate set, and picks the one which has the best classification accuracy. As a result, the choice of parameters strongly depends on the pre-defined candidate set. In this paper, we formulate the selection of the cost parameter and kernel parameter as a two-level optimization problem, in which the values of parameters vary continuously and thus optimization techniques can be applied to select ideal parameters. Due to the non-smoothness of the objective function in our model, a genetic algorithm has been presented. Numerical results show that the two-level approach can significantly improve the performance of SVM classifier in terms of classification accuracy.