This study presents a least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) based displacement prediction model for health monitoring of concrete dams. LSSVM is a novel machine learning technique. The model can produce similar good generalization performance and learns faster than the basic support vector machines in engineering problems. The advantages such as high prediction accuracy, fast training sp...

Support Vector Machines (SVMs) have become a popular classification tool. Because of their theoretical robustness they offer improvements in pattern classification applications. This paper describes an approach of producing a N-best list of hypotheses for the needs of phoneme recognition, using a Least Squares Support Vector Machine classifier (LS-SVM) and generate the corresponding N-best list...

Least squares twin support vector machine (LS-TSVM) aims at resolving a pair of smaller-sized quadratic programming problems (QPPs) instead of a single large one as in the conventional least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM), which makes the learning speed of LS-TSVM faster than that of LS-SVM. However, same penalties are given to the negative samples when constructing the hyper-plane for...

As a new type of dam, roller compacted concrete dam (RCCD) develops very fast in recent years. Deformation plays an important role in the RCCD’s safety. The deformation of RCCD is influenced mainly by three parts: water pressure, temperature and time effect. As to any of the three parts, there are many factors. Therefore, the deformation of RCCD is a complicated system. The least squares suppor...

Raw cow milk has short supply market in summer and over supply in winter, which causes consumers and dairy industry concern about the quality of raw milk whether is adulated with reconstituted milk (powdered milk). This study prepared 307 raw cow milk samples with various adulteration ratios 0%, 2%, 5%, 10%, 20%, 30%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of powdered milk. Least square support vector machine (LS-...

It is a well-known problem that obtaining a correct bandwidth in nonparametric regression is difficult in the presence of correlated errors. There exist a wide variety of methods coping with this problem, but they all critically depend on a tuning procedure which requires accurate information about the correlation structure. Since the errors cannot be observed, the latter is a hard goal to achi...

In this paper, variable selection and variable scaling are used in order to select the best regressor for the problem of time series prediction. Direct prediction methodology is used instead of the classic recursive methodology. Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVM) are used in order to avoid local minimal in the training phase of the model. The global methodology is applied to the tim...

In this paper, a multi-class feature selection scheme based on recursive feature elimination (RFE) is proposed for texture classifications. The feature selection scheme is performed in the context of one-against-all least squares support vector machine classifiers (LSSVM). The margin difference between binary classifiers with and without an associated feature is used to characterize the discrim...

In this paper, a modified least squares support vector machine classifier, called the C-variable least squares support vector machine (C-VLSSVM) classifier, is proposed for credit risk analysis. The main idea of the proposed classifier is based on the prior knowledge that different classes may have different importance for modeling and more weight should be given to classes having more importan...