New Least Squares Support Vector Machines Based on Matrix Patterns

in classification problems, tries to find the optimal hyperplane that maximizes the margin between two classes and can be obtained by solving a constrained optimization criterion using quadratic programming (QP). This QP leads to higher computational cost. Least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM), as a variant of SVM, tries to avoid the above shortcoming and obtain an analyt-ical solution directly from solving a set of linear equations instead of QP. Both SVM and LS-SVM operate directly on patterns represented by vector, i.e., before applying SVM or LS-SVM to a pattern, any non-vector pattern such as an image has to be first vectorized into a vector pattern by some techniques like concatenation. However, some implicit structural or local contextual information may be lost in this transformation. Moreover, as the dimension d of the weight vector in SVM or LS-SVM with the linear kernel is equal to the dimension d1 × d2 of the original input pattern, as a result, the higher the dimension of a vector pattern is, the more space is needed for storing it. In this paper, inspired by the method of feature extraction directly based on matrix patterns and the advantages of LS-SVM, we propose a new classifier design method based on matrix patterns, called MatLSSVM, such that th