RT Generic T1 On the combination of kernels for support vector classifiers A1 Martín de Diego, Isaac A1 Muñoz, Alberto A1 Moguerza, Javier M. AB The problem of combining different sources of information arises in several situations, for instance, the classification of data with asymmetric similarity matrices or the construction of an optimal classifier from a collection of kernels. Often, each source of information can be expressed as a kernel (similarity) matrix and, therefore, a collection of kernels is available. In this paper we propose a new class of methods in order to produce, for classification purposes, an unique and optimal kernel. Then, the constructed kernel is used to train a Support Vector Machine (SVM). The key ideas within the kernel construction are two: the quantification, relative to the classification labels, of the difference of information among the kernels; and the extension of the concept of linear combination of kernels to the concept of functional (matrix) combination of kernels. The proposed methods have been successfully evaluated and compared with other powerful classifiers and kernel combination techniques on a variety of artificial and real classification problems. YR 2005 FD 2005-07 LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/228 UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/228 LA eng DS e-Archivo RD 3 may. 2024