Gautam Kunapuli, Rich Maclin & Jude Shavlik (2011).
Advice Refinement for Knowledge-Based Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS).
Poster (PDF).

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Abstract:

Knowledge-based support vector machines (KBSVMs) incorporate advice from domain experts, which can improve generalization significantly. A major limitation that has not been fully addressed occurs when the expert advice is imperfect, which can lead to poorer models. We propose a model that extends KBSVMs and is able to not only learn from data and advice, but also simultaneously improves the advice. The proposed approach is particularly effective for knowledge discovery in domains with few labeled examples. The proposed model contains bilinear constraints, and is solved using two iterative approaches: successive linear programming and a constrained concave-convex approach. Experimental results demonstrate that these algorithms yield useful refinements to expert advice, as well as improve the performance of the learning algorithm overall.

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