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A Fast and Accurate Progressive Algorithm for Training Transductive SVMs

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This paper develops a fast and accurate algorithm for training transductive SVMs classifiers, which utilizes the classification information of unlabeled data in a progressive way. For improving the generalization accuracy further, we employ three important criteria to enhance the algorithm, i.e. confidence evaluation, suppression of labeled data, stopping with stabilization. Experimental results on several real world datasets confirm the effectiveness of these criteria and show that the new algorithm can reach to comparable accuracy as several state-of-the-art approaches for training transductive SVMs in much less training time.

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Derong Liu Shumin Fei Zengguang Hou Huaguang Zhang Changyin Sun

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Wang, L., Jia, H., Sun, S. (2007). A Fast and Accurate Progressive Algorithm for Training Transductive SVMs. In: Liu, D., Fei, S., Hou, Z., Zhang, H., Sun, C. (eds) Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2007. ISNN 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4493. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72395-0_63

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