A neural network method for solving support vector classification problems

This paper presents a recurrent neural network to support vector machine (SVM) learning in pattern classification arising widespread applications in a variety of setting. The SVM learning problem in classification is first converted into an equivalent quadratic programming (QP) formulation, and then a recurrent neural network for SVM learning is proposed. The proposed neural network is guaranteed to obtain the optimal solution of support vector classification. It is also shown that the proposed neural network model is stable in the sense of Lyapunov and it is globally convergent to an exact optimal solution of the QP problem. Several illustrative examples are provided to show the feasibility and the efficiency of the proposed method in this paper. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.