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Open Source Library for Optimization and Regularization of Linear Predictive Classification Models on Large Data Sets

Student: Udalov Ilia

Supervisor: Konstantin V. Vorontsov

Faculty: Faculty of Computer Science

Educational Programme: System and Software Engineering (Master)

Final Grade: 9

Year of Graduation: 2017

This work is dedicated to development of open source library for optimization and regularization of linear predictive classification models on large data sets. Library uses naïve but fast algorithm to solve optimization problem unlike Support Vector Machine (SVM). Algorithm is based on iteration procedure and allows to use different optimizations, such as initial approximation (using Bayes classifier), multithreading implementation, introspective model adjustments while learning, choosing custom loss function. Algorithm also saves SVM’like generalization for nonlinear cases with kernel trick. Theoretical part of this work studies structure, complexity and behavior of this approach for learning linear predictive classification models. Practical outcome of work is an open source library. Library has C++ API and command line interface. Library is publicly available on GitHub. This library was covered by tests and compared with most popular SVM implementation on multiple public data sets. ROC-AUC metric is used to compare models. Test datasets represent different tasks with different complexity from classic Fischer’s Iris data set to classifying internet advert, cancer, materials, etc. Keywords: linear predictive classification models, regularization, optimization methods, kernel trick, minimum empirical risk principle, support vector machine Master thesis: 49 pages, 27 pictures, 2 tables, 22 sources

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