Benchmarking Least Squares Support Vector Machine Classifiers

Sparse least squares Support Vector Machine classifiers

In least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) classi-ers the original SVM formulation of Vapnik is modiied by considering equalit y constraints within a form of ridge regression instead of inequality constraints. As a result the solution follows from solving a set of linear equations instead of a quadratic programming problem. Ho wever, a d r a wback is that sparseness is lost in the LS-SVM ...

Least Squares Support Vector Machine for Constitutive Modeling of Clay

Constitutive modeling of clay is an important research in geotechnical engineering. It is difficult to use precise mathematical expressions to approximate stress-strain relationship of clay. Artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) have been successfully used in constitutive modeling of clay. However, generalization ability of ANN has some limitations, and application of...

Sparse Least Squares Support Vector Machine Classiiers

In least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) classi-ers the original SVM formulation of Vapnik is modiied by considering equality constraints within a form of ridge regression instead of inequality constraints. As a result the solution follows from solving a set of linear equations instead of a quadratic programming problem. However, a drawback is that sparseness is lost in the LS-SVM case ...

Automatic relevance determination for Least Squares Support Vector Machines classifiers

Knowledge Discovery Using Least Squares Support Vector Machine Classifiers: A Direct Marketing Case

The case involves the detection and qualiication of the most relevant predictors for repeat-purchase modelling in a direct marketing setting. Analysis is based on a wrapped form of feature selection using a sensitivity based pruning heuristic to guide a greedy, step-wise and backward traversal of the input space. For this purpose, we make use of a powerful and promising least squares version (L...