A framework for classification with single feature kernel matrix

Abstract In this paper, we propose a novel classification framework using single feature kernel matrix. Different from the traditional kernel matrices which make use of the whole features of samples to build the kernel matrix, this research uses features of the same dimension of any two samples to build a sub-kernel matrix and sums up all the sub-kernel matrices to get the single feature kernel matrix. We also use single feature kernel matrix to build a new SVM classifier, and adapt SMO (Sequential Minimal Optimization) algorithm to solve the problem of SVM classifier. The results of the experiments on several artificial datasets and some challenging public cancer datasets display the classification performance of the algorithm. The comparisons between our algorithm and L 2 -norm SVM on the cancer datasets demonstrate that the accuracy of our algorithm is higher, and the number of support vectors selected is fewer, indicating that our proposed framework is a more practical approach.