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New bundle method for clusterwise linear regression utilizing support vector machines




AuthorsKaisa Joki, Adil M. Bagirov, Napsu Karmitsa, Marko M. Mäkelä, Sona Taheri

PublisherTurku Centre for Computer Science

Publishing placeTurku

Publication year2017

JournalTUCS Publication Series

Article number1190

Series titleTUCS Technical Reports

Number in series1190

Web address http://tucs.fi/publications/view/?pub_id=tJoBaKaMxTa17b

Self-archived copy’s web addresshttps://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/28322990


Abstract

Clusterwise linear regression (CLR) aims to simultaneously partition a data into a given number of clusters and find regression coefficients for each cluster. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to solve the CLR problem. The main idea is to utilize the support vector machine (SVM) approach to model the CLR problem by using the SVM for regression to approximate each cluster. This new formulation of CLR is represented as an unconstrained nonsmooth optimization problem, where the objective function is a difference of convex (DC) functions. A method based on the combination of the incremental algorithm and the double bundle method for DC optimization is designed to solve it. Numerical experiments are made to validate the reliability of the new formulation and the efficiency of the proposed method. The results show that the SVM approach is beneficial in solving CLR problems, especially, when there are outliers in data.


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