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Learning Polyhedral Classifiers Using Logistic Function

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Learning Polyhedral Classifiers Using Logistic Function
In this paper we propose a new algorithm for learning polyhedral classifiers. In contrast to existing methods for learning polyhedral classifier which solve a constrained optimization problem, our method solves an unconstrained optimization problem. Our method is based on a logistic function based model for the posterior probability function. We propose an alternating optimization algorithm, namely, SPLA1 (Single Polyhedral Learning Algorithm1) which maximizes the log-likelihood of the training data to learn the parameters. We also extend our method to make it independent of any user specified parameter (e.g., number of hyperplanes required to form a polyhedral set) in SPLA2. We show the effectiveness of our approach with experiments on various synthetic and real world datasets and compare our approach with a standard decision tree method (OC1) and a constrained optimization based method for learning polyhedral sets (Astorino and Gaudioso, 2002).
Naresh Manwani, P. S. Sastry
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Type Journal
Year 2010
Where JMLR
Authors Naresh Manwani, P. S. Sastry
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