General twin support vector machine with pinball loss function

Abstract

The standard twin support vector machine (TSVM) uses the hinge loss function which leads to noise sensitivity and instability. In this paper, we propose a novel general twin support vector machine with pinball loss (Pin-GTSVM) for solving classification problems. We show that the proposed Pin-GTSVM is noise insensitive and more stable for re-sampling. Further, the computational complexity of the proposed Pin-GTSVM is similar to that of the TSVM. Thus, the pinball loss function does not increase the computation time of the proposed Pin-GTSVM. Numerical experiments with different noise are performed on 17 UCI and KEEL benchmark real-world datasets and the results are compared with other baseline methods. The comparisons clearly show that the proposed Pin-GTSVM has better generalization performance for noise corrupted datasets.