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Support vector machine (SVM), a state-of-the-art classifier for supervised classification task, is famous for its strong generalization guarantees derived from the max-margin property. In this paper, we focus on the maximum margin classification problem cast by SVM and study the bi-regular hinge loss model, which not only performs feature selection but tends to select highly correlated features together. To solve this model, we propose an online learning algorithm that aims at solving a non-smooth minimization problem by alternating iterative mechanism. Basically, the proposed algorithm alternates between intrusion samples detection and iterative optimization, and at each iteration it obtains a closed-form solution to the model. In theory, we prove that the proposed algorithm achieves \(O(1/\sqrt{T})\) convergence rate under some mild conditions, where T is the number of training samples received in online learning. Experimental results on synthetic data and benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and performance of our approach in comparison with several popular algorithms, such as LIBSVM, SGD, PEGASOS, SVRG, etc.
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A problem is said to be NP-hard if the solution is required to be over the integers [16].
The learner in an online learning model needs to make predictions about a sequence of samples, one after the other, and then receives a loss after each prediction. The goal is to minimize the accumulated losses [30, 31]. The first explicit models of online learning were proposed by Angluin [2] and Littlestone [28].
CVX is a free Matlab software for disciplined convex programming, which can be downloaded from http://cvxr.com/cvx.
The objective function values here include the hinge loss and the bi-regular term.
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The authors thank the editor and the reviewers for their constructive comments and suggestions that greatly improved the quality and presentation of this paper. This work was partly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant nos. 12071104, 61671456, 61806004, 61971428), the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation (Grant no. 2020T130767), the Natural Science Foundation of the Anhui Higher Education Institutions of China (Grant no. KJ2019A0082), and the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province, China (Grant no. LD19A010002).
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Appendices
Appendix 1: Auxiliary Lemmas
To prove Theorems 1, we first give some auxiliary lemmas as follows.
Lemma 1
\(\forall\) \(\varvec{a}, \varvec{b}, \varvec{c} \in \mathbb {R}^n\) and \(h\in \mathbb {R}\), we have
Proof
\(\square\)
Particularly, when h becomes a symmetric matrix H, we have
Following the Lemma 11 given in [35], we obtain the result as follows.
Lemma 2
Under the update rules of Algorithm 1, it holds that
Appendix 2: Proof of Theorem 1
Proof
First, by the definition of \(\mathcal {R}_T\) and taking the optimality conditions for \(\varvec{w}_{t+1}\) and \(\varvec{z}_t\), we have
By using Lemma 1, we have
In addition, it holds that \(\langle \varvec{g}_t,\varvec{w}_{t}-\varvec{w}_{t+1}\rangle \le \frac{\eta _t}{2}\Vert \varvec{g}_t\Vert _{Q_t^{-1}}^2 + \frac{1}{2\eta _t}\Vert \varvec{w}_{t}-\varvec{w}_{t+1}\Vert _{Q_t}^2\). Plugging this inequality, Eq. (19), and Lemma 2 into the right-hand side of Eq. (18) gives
Note that \(Q_t=(\gamma -\rho \eta _t)I\), we have
Further, it follows from \(\langle \beta \nabla q(\varvec{z}_t) + \varvec{\lambda }_t, \varvec{z} -\varvec{z}_t \rangle \ge 0\) that \(\langle \varvec{z}_*- \varvec{z}_{T+1}, \varvec{\lambda }_* - \varvec{\lambda }_{T+1}\rangle \le \langle \varvec{z}_* - \varvec{z}_{T+1}, \beta \nabla q(\varvec{z}_{T+1}) + \varvec{\lambda }_* \rangle\). Then plugging this inequality and Eq. (21) into the right-hand side of Eq. (20) yields
where we use \(\varvec{\lambda }_{t} = \varvec{\lambda }_{t-1} - \rho (\varvec{w}_{t}-\varvec{z}_{t})\) and the initial values of \(\varvec{w}_1\), \(\varvec{z}_1\), and \(\varvec{\lambda }_1\). This gives the result as desired. \(\square\)
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Xue, W., Zhong, P., Zhang, W. et al. Sample-based online learning for bi-regular hinge loss. Int. J. Mach. Learn. & Cyber. 12, 1753–1768 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-020-01272-7
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