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Least squares support vector machine with self-organizing multiple kernel learning and sparsity

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posted on 2019-04-01, 12:56 authored by Chang Liu, Lixin Tang, Jiyin LiuJiyin Liu
© 2018 In recent years, least squares support vector machines (LSSVMs) with various kernel functions have been widely used in the field of machine learning. However, the selection of kernel functions is often ignored in practice. In this paper, an improved LSSVM method based on self-organizing multiple kernel learning is proposed for black-box problems. To strengthen the generalization ability of the LSSVM, some appropriate kernel functions are selected and the corresponding model parameters are optimized using a differential evolution algorithm based on an improved mutation strategy. Due to the large computation cost, a sparse selection strategy is developed to extract useful data and remove redundant data without loss of accuracy. To demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, some benchmark problems from the UCI machine learning repository are tested. The results show that the proposed method performs better than other state-of-the-art methods. In addition, to verify the practicability of the proposed method, it is applied to a real-world converter steelmaking process. The results illustrate that the proposed model can precisely predict the molten steel quality and satisfy the actual production demand.

Funding

This work was supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program of China under Grant 2016YFB0901900, in part by the Fund for Innovative Research Groups of the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 71621061, in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China through the Major International Joint Research Project under Grant 71520107004, in part by the Major Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 71790614, in part by the 111 Project under Grant B16009, and in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grants 61702077.

History

School

  • Business and Economics

Department

  • Business

Published in

Neurocomputing

Volume

331

Pages

493 - 504

Citation

LIU, C., TANG, L. and LIU, J., 2019. Least squares support vector machine with self-organizing multiple kernel learning and sparsity. Neurocomputing, 331, pp. 493 - 504.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Neurocomputing and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neucom.2018.11.067.

Acceptance date

2018-11-23

Publication date

2018-11-25

ISSN

0925-2312

eISSN

1872-8286

Language

  • en