title: Effects of kernel function on Nu support vector machines in extreme cases.
abstract: How we should choose a kernel function in support vector machines (SVMs), is an important but difficult problem. In this paper, we discuss the properties of the solution of the v-SVM's, a variation of SVM's, for normalized feature vectors in two extreme cases: All feature vectors are almost orthogonal and all feature vectors are almost the same. In the former case, the solution of the v-SVM is nearly the center of gravity of the examples given while the solution is approximated to that of the v-SVM with the linear kernel in the latter case. Although extreme kernels are not employed in practice, analyzes are helpful to understand the effects of a kernel function on the generalization performance.
authors.affiliation: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan. kazushi@i.kyoto-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Kazushi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ikeda