Journal
COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH
Volume 147, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cor.2022.105930
Keywords
Machine Learning; Support Vector Machine; Robust optimization; Distributionally robust optimization
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This paper presents novel data-driven optimization models for improving the classification performance of Support Vector Machines (SVM). By introducing uncertainty sets and robust optimization models, more reliable classification can be achieved in real-life noisy data. Experimental results show that this method is particularly beneficial for data sets with a small number of observations and can improve out-of-sample accuracy as the dimension of the data sets increases.
In this paper we present novel data-driven optimization models for Support Vector Machines (SVM), with the aim of linearly separating two sets of points that have non-disjoint convex closures. Traditional classification algorithms assume that the training data points are always known exactly. However, real-life data are often subject to noise. To handle such uncertainty, we formulate robust models with uncertainty sets in the form of hyperrectangles or hyperellipsoids, and propose a moment-based distributionally robust optimization model enforcing limits on first-order deviations along principal directions. All the formulations reduce to convex programs. The efficiency of the new classifiers is evaluated on real-world databases. Experiments show that robust classifiers are especially beneficial for data sets with a small number of observations. As the dimension of the data sets increases, features behavior is gradually learned and higher levels of out-of-sample accuracy can be achieved via the considered distributionally robust optimization method. The proposed formulations, overall, allow finding a trade-off between increasing the average performance accuracy and protecting against uncertainty, with respect to deterministic approaches.
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