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Asymptotic normality of support vector machine variants and other regularized kernel methods

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In nonparametric classification and regression problems, regularized kernel methods, in particular support vector machines, attract much attention in theoretical and in applied statistics. In an abstract sense, regularized kernel methods (simply called SVMs here) can be seen as regularized M-estimators for a parameter in a (typically infinite dimensional) reproducing kernel Hilbert space. For smooth loss functions L, it is shown that the difference between the estimator, i.e. the empirical SVM fL,Dn,λDn, and the theoretical SVM fL,P,λ0 is asymptotically normal with rate n. That is, n(fL,Dn,λDn−fL,P,λ0) converges weakly to a Gaussian process in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space. As common in real applications, the choice of the regularization parameter Dn in fL,Dn,λDn may depend on the data. The proof is done by an application of the functional delta-method and by showing that the SVM-functional P↦fL,P,λ is suitably Hadamard-differentiable.

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  • Hable, Robert, 2012. "Asymptotic normality of support vector machine variants and other regularized kernel methods," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 106(C), pages 92-117.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jmvana:v:106:y:2012:i:c:p:92-117
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jmva.2011.11.004
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    1. Hable, Robert & Christmann, Andreas, 2011. "On qualitative robustness of support vector machines," Journal of Multivariate Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 102(6), pages 993-1007, July.
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