An Uncertainty Framework for Classification

01/16/2013

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by   Loo-Nin Teow, et al.

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We define a generalized likelihood function based on uncertainty measures and show that maximizing such a likelihood function for different measures induces different types of classifiers. In the probabilistic framework, we obtain classifiers that optimize the cross-entropy function. In the possibilistic framework, we obtain classifiers that maximize the interclass margin. Furthermore, we show that the support vector machine is a sub-class of these maximum-margin classifiers.