Route kernels for trees

  • Authors:
  • Fabio Aiolli;Giovanni Da San Martino;Alessandro Sperduti

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Padua, Padua, Italy;University of Padua, Padua, Italy;University of Padua, Padua, Italy

  • Venue:
  • ICML '09 Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference on Machine Learning
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Almost all tree kernels proposed in the literature match substructures without taking into account their relative positioning with respect to one another. In this paper, we propose a novel family of kernels which explicitly focus on this type of information. Specifically, after defining a family of tree kernels based on routes between nodes, we present an efficient implementation for a member of this family. Experimental results on four different datasets show that our method is able to reach state of the art performances, obtaining in some cases performances better than computationally more demanding tree kernels.