Fuzzy rough support vector machine for data classification

In this paper, classification task is performed by FRSVM. It is variant of FSVM and MFSVM. Fuzzy rough set takes care of sensitiveness of noisy samples and handles impreciseness. The membership function is developed as function of cener and radius of each class in feature space. It plays an important role towards sampling the decision surface. The training samples are either linear or nonlinear separable. In nonlinear training samples, input space is mapped into high dimensional feature space to compute separating surface. The different input points make unique contributions to decision surface. The performance of the classifier is assessed in terms of the number of support vectors. The effect of variability in prediction and generalization of FRSVM is examined with respect to values of C. It effectively resolves imbalance and overlapping class problems, normalizes to unseen data and relaxes dependency between features and labels. Experimental results on both synthetic and real datasets support that FRSVM achieves superior performance in reducing outliers-effects than existing SVMs. © 2016, IGI Global.