Algorithms for the Computation of Reduced Convex Hulls

  • Authors:
  • Ben Goodrich;David Albrecht;Peter Tischer

  • Affiliations:
  • Clayton School of IT, Monash University, Australia;Clayton School of IT, Monash University, Australia;Clayton School of IT, Monash University, Australia

  • Venue:
  • AI '09 Proceedings of the 22nd Australasian Joint Conference on Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Geometric interpretations of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have introduced the concept of a reduced convex hull. A reduced convex hull is the set of all convex combinations of a set of points where the weight any single point can be assigned is bounded from above by a constant. This paper decouples reduced convex hulls from their origins in SVMs and allows them to be constructed independently. Two algorithms for the computation of reduced convex hulls are presented --- a simple recursive algorithm for points in the plane and an algorithm for points in an arbitrary dimensional space. Upper bounds on the number of vertices and facets in a reduced convex hull are used to analyze the worst-case complexity of the algorithms.