Prior Knowledge in Support Vector Kernels

Bernhard Schölkopf, Patrice Simard, Alex J. Smola, Vladimir Vapnik

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 10 (NIPS 1997)

We explore methods for incorporating prior knowledge about a problem at hand in Support Vector learning machines. We show that both invari(cid:173) ances under group transfonnations and prior knowledge about locality in images can be incorporated by constructing appropriate kernel functions.