Hyperbolic Tangent Support Vector Machine

By utilizing hyperbolic tangent function,we constructed a novel hyperbolic tangent loss function to reduce the influences of outliers on support vector machine (SVM) classification problem.The new lass fuinction not only limits the maximal loss value of outliers but also is smooth.Hyperbolic tangent SVM (HTSVM) is then proposed based on the new loss function.The experimental results show that HTSVM reduces the effects of outliers and gives better generalization performance than the classical SVM on both artificial data and UCI data sets.Therefore,the proposed hyperbolic tangent loss faction and HTSVM are both effective.