Margin-sparsity trade-off for the set covering machine

  • Authors:
  • François Laviolette;Mario Marchand;Mohak Shah

  • Affiliations:
  • IFT-GLO, Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, (QC), Canada;IFT-GLO, Université Laval, Sainte-Foy, (QC), Canada;SITE, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont., Canada

  • Venue:
  • ECML'05 Proceedings of the 16th European conference on Machine Learning
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We propose a new learning algorithm for the set covering machine and a tight data-compression risk bound that the learner can use for choosing the appropriate tradeoff between the sparsity of a classifier and the magnitude of its separating margin.