Header logo is

Branch and Bound for Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines

2007

Conference Paper

ei


Semi-supervised SVMs (S3VMs) attempt to learn low-density separators by maximizing the margin over labeled and unlabeled examples. The associated optimization problem is non-convex. To examine the full potential of S3VMs modulo local minima problems in current implementations, we apply branch and bound techniques for obtaining exact, globally optimal solutions. Empirical evidence suggests that the globally optimal solution can return excellent generalization performance in situations where other implementations fail completely. While our current implementation is only applicable to small datasets, we discuss variants that can potentially lead to practically useful algorithms.

Author(s): Chapelle, O. and Sindhwani, V. and Keerthi, SS.
Book Title: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19
Journal: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference
Pages: 217-224
Year: 2007
Month: September
Day: 0
Editors: Sch{\"o}lkopf, B. , J. Platt, T. Hofmann
Publisher: MIT Press

Department(s): Empirical Inference
Bibtex Type: Conference Paper (inproceedings)

Event Name: Twentieth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2006)
Event Place: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Address: Cambridge, MA, USA
Digital: 0
ISBN: 0-262-19568-2
Language: en
Organization: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
School: Biologische Kybernetik

Links: PDF
Web

BibTex

@inproceedings{4146,
  title = {Branch and Bound for Semi-Supervised Support Vector Machines},
  author = {Chapelle, O. and Sindhwani, V. and Keerthi, SS.},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19},
  pages = {217-224},
  editors = {Sch{\"o}lkopf, B. , J. Platt, T. Hofmann},
  publisher = {MIT Press},
  organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft},
  school = {Biologische Kybernetik},
  address = {Cambridge, MA, USA},
  month = sep,
  year = {2007},
  doi = {},
  month_numeric = {9}
}