Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 12 (NIPS 1999)
Olivier Chapelle, Vladimir Vapnik
New functionals for parameter (model) selection of Support Vector Ma(cid:173) chines are introduced based on the concepts of the span of support vec(cid:173) tors and rescaling of the feature space. It is shown that using these func(cid:173) tionals, one can both predict the best choice of parameters of the model and the relative quality of performance for any value of parameter.