Quantum-inspired evolutionary tuning of SVM parameters

The most commonly used parameters selection method for support vector machines (SVM) is cross-validation, which needs a longtime complicated calculation. In this paper, a novel regularization parameter and a kernel parameter tuning approach of SVM are presented based on quantum-inspired evolutionary algorithm (QEA). QEA with quantum chromosome and quantum mutation has better global search capacity. The parameters of least squares support vector machines (LS-SVM) can be adjusted using quantum-inspired evolutionary optimization. Classification and function estimation are studied using LS-SVM with wavelet kernel and Gaussian kernel. The simulation results show that the proposed approach can effectively tune the parameters of LS-SVM, and the improved LS-SVM with wavelet kernel can provide better precision. (C) 2007 National Natural Science Foundation of China and Chinese Academy of Sciences. Published by Elsevier Limited and Science in China Press. All rights reserved.