Support vector machine with SOM-based quasi-linear kernel for nonlinear classification

This paper proposes a self-organizing maps (SOM) based kernel composition method for the quasi-linear support vector machine (SVM). The quasi-linear SVM is SVM model with quasi-linear kernel, in which the nonlinear separation hyperplane is approximated by multiple local linear models with interpolation. The basic idea underlying the proposed method is to use clustering and projection properties of SOM to partition the input space and construct a SOM based quasi-linear kernel. By effectively extracting the distribution information using SOM, the quasi-linear SVM with the SOM-based quasi-linear kernel is expected to have better performance in the cases of high-noise and high-dimension. Experiment results on synthetic datasets and real world datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed method.