In this paper we evaluate an instance-based spam filter based on the SVM nearest neighbor (SVM-NN) classifier, which combines the ideas of SVM and k-nearest neighbor. To label a message the classifier first finds k nearest labeled messages, and then an SVM model is trained on these k samples and used to label the unknown sample. Here we present preliminary results of the comparison of SVM-NN wi...

The use of support vector machine (SVM) for function approximation has increased over the past few years. Unfortunately, the practical use of SVM is limited because the quality of SVM models heavily depends on a proper setting of SVM hyper-parameters and SVM kernel parameters. Therefore, it is necessary to develop an automated, reliable, and relatively fast approach to determine the values of t...

This paper focuses on the feature gene selection for cancer classification, which employs an optimization algorithm to select a subset of the genes. We propose a binary quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (BQPSO) for cancer feature gene selection, coupling support vector machine (SVM) for cancer classification. First, the proposed BQPSO algorithm is described, which is a discretized ver...

The nu-support vector machine (nu-SVM) for classification proposed by Schölkopf, Smola, Williamson, and Bartlett (2000) has the advantage of using a parameter nu on controlling the number of support vectors. In this article, we investigate the relation between nu-SVM and C-SVM in detail. We show that in general they are two different problems with the same optimal solution set. Hence, we may ex...

Normal support vector machine (SVM) is not suitable for classification of large data sets because of high training complexity. Convex hull can simplify the SVM training. However, the classification accuracy becomes lower when there exist inseparable points. This paper introduces a novel method for SVM classification, called convex–concave hull SVM (CCH-SVM). After grid processing, the convex hu...

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is the state-of-art learning machine that has been very fruitful not only in pattern recognition, but also in data mining areas, such as feature selection on microarray data, novelty detection, the scalability of algorithms, etc. SVM has been extensively and successfully applied in feature selection for genetic diagnosis. In this paper, we do the contrary,i.e., we u...

In optical printed Chinese character recognition (OPCCR), many classifiers have been proposed for the recognition. Among the classifiers, support vector machine (SVM) might be the best classifier. However, SVM is a classifier for two classes. When it is used for multi-classes in OPCCR, its computation is time-consuming. Thus, we propose a neighbor classes based SVM (NC-SVM) to reduce the comput...