An EA multi-model selection for SVM multiclass schemes

  • Authors:
  • G. Lebrun;O. Lezoray;C. Charrier;H. Cardot

  • Affiliations:
  • LUSAC EA, Vision and Image Analysis Team, IUT SRC, Saint-Lô, France;LUSAC EA, Vision and Image Analysis Team, IUT SRC, Saint-Lô, France;LUSAC EA, Vision and Image Analysis Team, IUT SRC, Saint-Lô, France;Laboratoire d'Informatique, Université François-Rabelais de Tours, Tours, France

  • Venue:
  • IWANN'07 Proceedings of the 9th international work conference on Artificial neural networks
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Multiclass problems with binary SVM classifiers are commonly treated as a decomposition in several binary sub-problems. An open question is how to properly tune all these sub-problems (SVM hyperparameters) in order to have the lowest error rate for a SVM multiclass scheme based on decomposition. In this paper, we propose a new approach to optimize the generalization capacity of such SVM multiclass schemes. This approach consists in a global selection of hyperparameters for sub-problems all together and it is denoted as multimodel selection. A multi-model selection can outperform the classical individual model selection used until now in the literature. An evolutionary algorithm (EA) is proposed to perform multi-model selection. Experimentations with our EA method show the benefits of our approach over the classical one.