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Multi-task Support Vector Machine Classifier with Generalized Huber Loss

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  • Qi Liu

    (Tianjin Agricultural University)

  • Wenxin Zhu

    (Tianjin Agricultural University)

  • Zhengming Dai

    (Institute of Electronic Standardization Technology)

  • Zhihong Ma

    (Tianjin Agricultural University)

Abstract

Compared to single-task learning (STL), multi-task learning (MTL) achieves a better generalization by exploiting domain-specific information implicit in the training signals of several related tasks. The adaptation of MTL to support vector machines (SVMs) is a rather successful example. Inspired by the recently published generalized Huber loss SVM (GHSVM) and regularized multi-task learning (RMTL), we propose a novel generalized Huber loss multi-task support vector machine including linear and non-linear cases for binary classification, named as MTL-GHSVM. The new method extends the GHSVM from single-task to multi-task learning, and the application of Huber loss to MTL-SVM is innovative to the best of our knowledge. The proposed method has two main advantages: on the one hand, compared with SVMs with hinge loss and GHSVM, our MTL-GHSVM using the differentiable generalized Huber loss has better generalization performance; on the other hand, it adopts functional iteration to find the optimal solution, and does not need to solve a quadratic programming problem (QPP), which can significantly reduce the computational cost. Numerical experiments have been conducted on fifteen real datasets, and the results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed multi-task classification algorithm compared with the state-of-the-art algorithms.

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  • Qi Liu & Wenxin Zhu & Zhengming Dai & Zhihong Ma, 2025. "Multi-task Support Vector Machine Classifier with Generalized Huber Loss," Journal of Classification, Springer;The Classification Society, vol. 42(1), pages 221-252, March.
  • Handle: RePEc:spr:jclass:v:42:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1007_s00357-024-09488-w
    DOI: 10.1007/s00357-024-09488-w
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