An iterative reweighted least squares (IRWLS) procedure recently proposed is shown to converge to the support vector machine solution. The convergence to a stationary point is ensured by modifying the original IRWLS procedure.

Understanding crack growth behavior in engineering components subjected to cyclic fatigue loadings is necessary for design and maintenance purpose. Fatigue crack growth (FCG) rate strongly depends on the applied loading characteristics in a nonlinear manner, and when the mechanical loadings combine with environmental attacks, this dependency will be more complicated. Since, the experimental inv...

a method based on electrical capacitance tomography (ect) and an improved least squares support vector machine (ls-svm) is proposed for void fraction measurement of oil-gas two-phase flow. in the modeling stage, to solve the two problems in ls-svm, pruning skills are employed to make ls-svm sparse and robust; then the real-coded genetic algorithm is introduced to solve the difficult problem of ...

For least squares support vector machine (LSSVM) the lack of sparse, while the standard sparse algorithm exist a problem that it need to mark all of training data. We propose an active learning algorithm based on LSSVM to solve sparse problem. This method first construct a minimum classification LSSVM, and then calculate the uncertainty of the sample, select the closest category to mark the sam...

Supervised learning problem with Universum data is a new research subject in machine learning. Universum data, which are not belonging to any class of the classification problem of interest, has been proved very helpful in learning. For data classification with Universum data, a novel quick classifier is proposed in this paper and named as least squares Universum twin support vector machine (LS...

this paper aims to assess the application of support vector machine (svm) regression in order to analysis flexible pavements. to this end, 10000 four-layer flexible pavement sections consisted of asphalt concrete layer, granular base layer, granular subbase layer, and subgrade soil were analyzed under the effect of standard axle loading using multi-layered elastic theory and pavement critical r...