- A Linearly Convergent Linear-Time First-Order Algorithm for Support Vector Classification with a Core Set Result Piyush Kumar(piyushcs.fsu.edu) E. Alper Yildirim(yildirimbilkent.edu.tr) Abstract: We present a simple, first-order approximation algorithm for the support vector classification problem. Given a pair of linearly separable data sets and $\epsilon \in (0,1)$, the proposed algorithm computes a separating hyperplane whose margin is within a factor of $(1-\epsilon)$ of that of the maximum-margin separating hyperplane. We discuss how our algorithm can be extended to nonlinearly separable and inseparable data sets. The running time of our algorithm is linear in the number of data points and in $1/\epsilon$. In particular, the number of support vectors computed by the algorithm is bounded above by $O(\zeta/\epsilon)$ for all sufficiently small $\epsilon > 0$, where $\zeta$ is the square of the ratio of the distances between the farthest and closest points in the two data sets. Furthermore, we establish that our algorithm exhibits linear convergence. We adopt the real number model of computation in our analysis. Keywords: Support vector machines, support vector classification, Frank-Wolfe algorithm, approximation algorithms, core sets, linear convergence. Category 1: Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization (Convex Optimization ) Citation: Bilkent University, Department of Industrial Engineering, Technical Report, April 2008. Download: [PDF]Entry Submitted: 04/10/2009Entry Accepted: 04/10/2009Entry Last Modified: 04/10/2009Modify/Update this entry Visitors Authors More about us Links Subscribe, Unsubscribe Digest Archive Search, Browse the Repository Submit Update Policies Coordinator's Board Classification Scheme Credits Give us feedback Optimization Journals, Sites, Societies Optimization Online is supported by the Mathematical Programming Society and by the Optimization Technology Center.