Support vector machines (SVMs) have played a key role in broad classes of problems arising in various elds. Much more recently, SVMs have become the tool of choice for problems arising in data classi - cation and mining. ...

The problem of extracting a minimal number of data points from a large dataset, in order to generate a support vector machine (SVM) classi er, is formulated as a concave minimization problem and solved by a nite number ...