Evolutionary design of multiclass support vector machines

  • Authors:
  • Ana C. Lorena;André/ C. P. L. F. Carvalho

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd. Tel.: +55 16 3373 9646/ Fax: +55 16 3371 2238/ aclorena@icmc.usp.br) Depo. de Ciê/ncias de Computaç/ã/o, Insto. de Ciê/ncias Matemá/ticas e de Computaç/ã/o, ...;Departamento de Ciê/ncias de Computaç/ã/o, Instituto de Ciê/ncias Matemá/ticas e de Computaç/ã/o, Universidade de Sá/o Paulo, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology - VIII Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Support Vector Machines constitute a Machine Learning technique originally designed for the solution of 2-class problems. For multiclass applications, several strategies divide the original problem into a set of binary subtasks, whose results are combined. This work introduces the use of Genetic Algorithms to determine binary decompositions of multiclass problems. Experimental results on benchmark and Bioinformatics multiclass datasets indicate the potential of the proposed approach, which is able to produce good multiclass solutions with the use of simple decompositions.