Cauchy mutation based on objective variable of Gaussian particle swarm optimization for parameters selection of SVM

  • Authors:
  • Qi Wu;Rob Law

  • Affiliations:
  • Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Design and Manufacture of Micro-Nano Biomedical Instruments, Southeast University, Nanjing 211189, China and School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechni ...;School of Hotel and Tourism Management, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

On the basis of the slow convergence of particle swarm algorithm (PSO) during parameters selection of support vector machine (SVM), this paper proposes a hybrid mutation strategy that integrates Gaussian mutation operator and Cauchy mutation operator for PSO. The combinatorial mutation based on the fitness function value and the iterative variable is also applied to inertia weight. The results of application in parameter selection of support vector machine show the proposed PSO with hybrid mutation strategy based on Gaussian mutation and Cauchy mutation is feasible and effective, and the comparison between the method proposed in this paper and other ones is also given, which proves this method is better than sole Gaussian mutation and standard PSO.