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Pseudo-privileged information and SVM+

SUN Guangling;DONG Yong;LIU Zhi   

  1. (School of Communication and Information Engineering, Shanghai Univ., Shanghai 200072, China)
  • Received:2015-10-26 Online:2016-12-20 Published:2017-01-19

Abstract:

In machine learning, learning using privileged information(LUPI) tries to improve the generalization of the classifier by leveraging information only available during learning. In the scenario of privileged information(PI) possessed by partial training samples, pseudo-privileged information(PPI) and SVM+are investigated. The proposed models depend on two formulations. One is to construct PPI for the samples without PI alone. The formulation enables slacks of such samples predicted in the correcting space with an ultimate goal of improving the generalization of the classifier. Available information and random features are proved to be effective options for PPI. The other is to replace the genuine PI with PPI so as to predict the slacks of all training samples in the unique correcting space. It is confirmed that at least for certain genuine PI and two categories classification task, the latter one is capable of obtaining better generalization performance. Experiments are performed on written digits and facial expression recognition. The results have validated advantages of SVM+using PPI.

Key words: learning using privileged information, pseudo-privileged information, SVM+