Field support vector regression

Haochuan Jiang, Kaizhu Huang*, Rui Zhang

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In regression tasks for static data, existing methods often assume that they were generated from an identical and independent distribution (i.i.d.). However, violation can be found when input samples may form groups, each affected by a certain different domain. In this case, style consistency exists within a same group, leading to degraded performance when conventional machine learning models were applied due to the violation of the i.i.d. assumption. In this paper, we propose one novel regression model named Field Support Vector Regression (F-SVR) without i.i.d. assumption. Specifically, we perform a style normalization transformation learning and the regression model learning simultaneously. An alternative optimization with final convergence guaranteed is designed, as well as a transductive learning algorithm, enabling extension on unseen styles during the testing phase. Experiments are conducted on two synthetic as well as two real benchmark data sets. Results show that the proposed F-SVR significantly outperforms many other state-of-the-art regression models in all the used data sets.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 24th International Conference, ICONIP 2017, Proceedings
EditorsYuanqing Li, Derong Liu, Shengli Xie, El-Sayed M. El-Alfy, Dongbin Zhao
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages699-708
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9783319700861
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2017 - Guangzhou, China
Duration: 14 Nov 201718 Nov 2017

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume10634 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2017
Country/TerritoryChina
CityGuangzhou
Period14/11/1718/11/17

Keywords

  • Field regression
  • Multi-task learning
  • Style normalization transformation
  • Support vector regression
  • Transfer learning

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