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...

Successful river flow forecasting is a major goal and an essential procedure that is necessary in water resource planning and management. There are many forecasting techniques used for river flow forecasting. This study proposed a hybrid model based on a combination of two methods: Self Organizing Map (SOM) and Least Squares Support Vector Machine (LSSVM) model, referred to as the SOM-LSSVM mod...

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...

Abstract: In this paper a new algorithm to identify Auto-Regressive Exogenous Models (ARX) based on Twin Support Vector Machine Regression (TSVR) has been developed. The model is determined by minimizing two ε insensitive loss functions. One of them determines the ε1-insensitive down bound regressor while the other determines the ε2-insensitive up-bound regressor. The algorithm is compared to S...

We propose a snowing model to iteratively smoothe the various image noises while preserving the important image structures such as edges and lines. Considering the gray image as a digital terrain model, we develop an adaptive weighted least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) to iteratively estimate the optimal gray surface underlying the noisy image. The LS-SVM works on Gaussian noise whil...

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-...

With the improvement of industrialization, importance equipment failure prediction is increasing day by day. Accurate gas-insulated switchgear (GIS) in advance can reduce economic loss caused power system to operate normally. Therefore, a GIS fault approach based on Improved Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm (IPSO)-least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) proposed this paper. Firstly, f...

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...