SVM optimization: inverse dependence on training set size

  • Authors:
  • Shai Shalev-Shwartz;Nathan Srebro

  • Affiliations:
  • Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Chicago IL;Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, Chicago IL

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Machine learning
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We discuss how the runtime of SVM optimization should decrease as the size of the training data increases. We present theoretical and empirical results demonstrating how a simple subgradient descent approach indeed displays such behavior, at least for linear kernels.