Summary of Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Multiclass Support Vector Machine, by Michael Ibrahim et al.
Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Multiclass Support Vector Machine
by Michael Ibrahim, Heraldo Rozas, Nagi Gebraeel
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a distributionally robust multiclass support vector machine (SVM) to tackle uncertainty in data features and labels. Specifically, it addresses the issue of imbalanced datasets, where one-vs-all (OVA) classifiers may struggle. The authors develop a Wasserstein-based optimization approach to create a robust SVM characterized by the Crammer-Singer (CS) loss. They prove that the CS loss is bounded from above by a Lipschitz continuous function and exploit strong duality results to derive a tractable convex reformulation of the worst-case risk problem. A kernel version is also proposed to account for nonlinear class separation, and a projected subgradient method algorithm is developed for scalability. Experimental results show that the model outperforms state-of-the-art OVA models in imbalanced settings and often outperforms its regularized counterpart on real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps solve a big problem in machine learning. When we have uncertain data, our algorithms might not work well. The authors create a new type of support vector machine that can handle this uncertainty. They test it with different types of data and show that it works better than other methods when the data is imbalanced. This is important because imbalanced data is common in real-world problems. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning » Optimization » Support vector machine
