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Incorporating Invariances in Non-Linear Support Vector Machines
The choice of an SVM kernel corresponds to the choice of a representation of the data in a feature space and, to improve performance, it should therefore incorporate prior knowledge such as known transformation invariances. We propose a technique which extends earlier work and aims at incorporating invariances in nonlinear kernels. We show on a digit recognition task that the proposed approach is superior to the Virtual Support Vector method, which previously had been the method of choice.
@inproceedings{1820, title = {Incorporating Invariances in Non-Linear Support Vector Machines }, journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems}, booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14}, abstract = {The choice of an SVM kernel corresponds to the choice of a representation of the data in a feature space and, to improve performance, it should therefore incorporate prior knowledge such as known transformation invariances. We propose a technique which extends earlier work and aims at incorporating invariances in nonlinear kernels. We show on a digit recognition task that the proposed approach is superior to the Virtual Support Vector method, which previously had been the method of choice.}, pages = {609-616}, editors = {TG Dietterich and S Becker and Z Ghahramani}, publisher = {MIT Press}, organization = {Max-Planck-Gesellschaft}, school = {Biologische Kybernetik}, address = {Cambridge, MA, USA}, month = sep, year = {2002}, slug = {1820}, author = {Chapelle, O. and Sch{\"o}lkopf, B.}, month_numeric = {9} }