Border-Sensitive Learning in Kernelized Learning
Marika Kästner, Martin Riedel, Marc Strickert, Wieland Hermann, Thomas Villmann, Philipps-University Marburg · 2013
Prototype based classification approaches are powerful clas- sifiers for class discrimination of vectorial data. Famous examples are learning vector quantization models (LVQ) and support vector machines (SVMs). In this paper we propose the application of kernel distances in LVQ such that the LVQ-algorithm can handle the data in a topologically equivalent data space compared to the feature mapping space in SVMs. Further, we provide strategies to force the LVQ-prototypes to be class border sensitive. In this way an alternative to SVMs based on Hebbian learning is established. After presenting the theoretical background, we demonstrate the abilities of the model for an illustrative toy example and for the more challenging task of classification of Wilson's disease patients according to their neurophysiological impairments.