Paper:
Language: English:

Support Vector Machine Classifier with WHM Offset for Unbalanced Data

Boyang Li, Jinglu Hu, and Kotaro Hirasawa

Graduate School of Information, Production and Systems, Waseda University
2-7 Hibikino, Wakamatsu-ku, Kitakyushu-shi, Fukuoka 808-0135, Japan

Received: May 30, 2007

Accepted: October 18, 2007

Keywords: SVM, unbalanced data, WHM offset, classification, boundary excursion

Journal ref: Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Intelligent Informatics, Vol.12, No.1 pp. 94-101, 2008

Abstract

We propose an improved support vector machine (SVM) classifier by introducing a new offset, for solving the real-world unbalanced classification problem. The new offset is calculated based on the unbalanced support vectors resulting from the unbalanced training data. We developed a weighted harmonic mean (WHM) algorithm to further reduce the effects of noise on offset calculation. We apply the proposed approach to classify real-world data. Results of simulation demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed approach.

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