An improved 1-norm SVM for simultaneous classification and variable selection
Hui Jun Zou · 2007
We propose a novel extension of the 1-norm support vector machine (SVM) for simultaneous feature selection and classification. The new algorithm penalizes the empirical hinge loss by the adaptively weighted 1-norm penalty in which the weights are computed by the 2-norm SVM. Hence the new algorithm is called the hybrid SVM. Simulation and real data examples show that the hybrid SVM not only often improves upon the 1-norm SVM in terms of classification accuracy but also enjoys better feature selection performance. 1