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Least Squares Support Vector Machines (LS-SVM) is aproven method for classification and function approximation. In comparison to the standard Support Vector Machines (SVM) it only requires solving a linear system, but it lacks sparseness in the number of solution terms. Pruning can therefore be applied. Standard ways of pruning the LS-SVM consist of recursively solving the approximation problem and subsequently omitting data that have a small error in the previous pass and are based on support values. We suggest a slightly adapted variant that improves the performance significantly. We assess the relative regression performance of these pruning schemes in a comparison with two (for pruning adapted) subset selection schemes, -one based on the QR decomposition (supervised), one that searches the most representative feature vector span (unsupervised)-, random omission and backward selection on independent test sets in some benchmark experiments.
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Hoegaerts, L., Suykens, J.A.K., Vandewalle, J., De Moor, B. (2004). A Comparison of Pruning Algorithms for Sparse Least Squares Support Vector Machines. In: Pal, N.R., Kasabov, N., Mudi, R.K., Pal, S., Parui, S.K. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3316. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30499-9_194
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