A modified SVM classification algorithm for data of variable quality

  • Authors:
  • Bruno Apolloni;Dario Malchiodi;Luca Natali

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy

  • Venue:
  • KES'07/WIRN'07 Proceedings of the 11th international conference, KES 2007 and XVII Italian workshop on neural networks conference on Knowledge-based intelligent information and engineering systems: Part III
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We propose a modified SVM algorithm for the classification of data augmented with explicit quality quantification for each example in the training set. As the extension to nonlinear decision functions through the use of kernels brings to a non-convex optimization problem, we develop an approximate solution. Finally, the proposed approach is applied to a set of benchmarks and contrasted with analogous methodologies in the literature.