SVM(Support Vector Machine)指的是支持向量机，是常见的一种判别方法。在机器学习领域，是一个有监督的学习模型，通常用来进行模式识别、分类以及回归分析。通过学习《机器学习实战》这本书，学习了第六章的支持向量机，将其算法整理。
1、数学基础和算法原理
支持向量机涉及到数学公式和定力非常多，只有掌握了这些数学公式才能更好地理解支持向量机算法。最优化问题一般是指对于某一个函数而言,求解在其指定作用域上的全局最小值问题,一般分为三种情况(备注:以下几种方式求出来的解都有可能是局部极小值,只有当函数是凸函数的时候,才可以得到全局最小值)
无约束问题:求解方式一般求解方式梯度下降法、牛顿法、坐标轴下降法等;其中梯度下降法是用递归来逼近最小偏差的模型。
等式约束条件:求解方式一般为拉格朗日乘子
不等式约束条件:求解方式一般为KKT条件
SVM的求解过程，就是在一个n维向量空间中的点，找到个“超平面”把两种类型分开
在线性可分的情况下，目前常用的比较高效的是SMO算法
线性不可分的情况下，处理二维空间线性可分的问题不难，SVM的优点是可以把低维线性不可分的情况，映射到高维线性可分的情况。这里的维度，大家不要想象成科幻小说里的4维空间什么的，比如要对人进行分类，现在收集到的属性有发色、身高、肤色、年龄这4个属性值，这时候每个人的属性值就是个4维向量，把这个4维向量通过一个函数变换成6维向量，就是向高维的映射。有一种变换函数叫“核函数”，核函数的引入是非常巧妙的，它把向量映射到高维，同时避免了向量在高维空间中直接计算的复杂性
常用的核函数有线性核，RBF核(径向基)等
2、实例：手写识别问题
拟解决预测手写数字的问题，问题的数据集是从一些NationalInstitute of Standards and Technology (NIST)的文档中得来，是计算机视觉入门级的数据集，它包含各种手写数字图片
对于人类来说，识别手写的数字是一件非常容易的事情。我们甚至不用思考，就可以看出上面的数字分别是5,0,4,1。但是想让机器识别这些数字，则要困难得多。
2.1 数据准备
数据来源于数字的像素点
2.2 模型基本原理与算法实现
支持向量机，就是通过最大化支持向量到分类超平面之间的分类间隔。分类超平面就是我们想要得到的决策曲面；支持向量就是离分类超平面最近的点，而间隔即为支持向量到分类超平面的距离。
核函数：这是一种将SVM扩展到更多数据集的方式，一般的说法是，核函数的作用是将数据从低维空间映射到高维空间，使得线性不可分变得线性可分。这句话的意思用个简单的例子来说明：
有：a1 * x1^2 + a2 * x2^2 + a3 * x1x2 = 0
此时令：z1=x1^2, z2=x2^2, z3=x1x2
这样就由原来的二维映射到三维空间了，而此时问题变成线性可分了。我们知道，在求解SVM时，所有的运算都可以写成内积的形式，但是在高维空间中计算内积往往比较复杂，有时可能出现维数灾难，此时我们就可以把内急运算符换成核函数，从而解决这个问题。
2.3 测试方法与结果
经过第一次测试，所选取的的值为‘rbf’，20。得到的结果如下
结果表明，当径向基核函数中的参数取10左右时，就可以得到最小的测试错误率。
2.4 代码
from numpy import * from time import sleep def loadDataSet(fileName): dataMat = []; labelMat = [] fr = open(fileName) for line in fr.readlines(): lineArr = line.strip().split('\t') dataMat.append([float(lineArr[0]), float(lineArr[1])]) labelMat.append(float(lineArr[2])) return dataMat,labelMat def selectJrand(i,m): j=i #we want to select any J not equal to i while (j==i): j = int(random.uniform(0,m)) return j def clipAlpha(aj,H,L): if aj > H: aj = H if L > aj: aj = L return aj def smoSimple(dataMatIn, classLabels, C, toler, maxIter): dataMatrix = mat(dataMatIn); labelMat = mat(classLabels).transpose() b = 0; m,n = shape(dataMatrix) alphas = mat(zeros((m,1))) iter = 0 while (iter < maxIter): alphaPairsChanged = 0 for i in range(m): fXi = float(multiply(alphas,labelMat).T*(dataMatrix*dataMatrix[i,:].T)) + b Ei = fXi - float(labelMat[i])#if checks if an example violates KKT conditions if ((labelMat[i]*Ei < -toler) and (alphas[i] < C)) or ((labelMat[i]*Ei > toler) and (alphas[i] > 0)): j = selectJrand(i,m) fXj = float(multiply(alphas,labelMat).T*(dataMatrix*dataMatrix[j,:].T)) + b Ej = fXj - float(labelMat[j]) alphaIold = alphas[i].copy(); alphaJold = alphas[j].copy(); if (labelMat[i] != labelMat[j]): L = max(0, alphas[j] - alphas[i]) H = min(C, C + alphas[j] - alphas[i]) else: L = max(0, alphas[j] + alphas[i] - C) H = min(C, alphas[j] + alphas[i]) if L==H: print ("L==H"); continue eta = 2.0 * dataMatrix[i,:]*dataMatrix[j,:].T - dataMatrix[i,:]*dataMatrix[i,:].T - dataMatrix[j,:]*dataMatrix[j,:].T if eta >= 0: print ("eta>=0"); continue alphas[j] -= labelMat[j]*(Ei - Ej)/eta alphas[j] = clipAlpha(alphas[j],H,L) if (abs(alphas[j] - alphaJold) < 0.00001): print ("j not moving enough"); continue alphas[i] += labelMat[j]*labelMat[i]*(alphaJold - alphas[j])#update i by the same amount as j #the update is in the oppostie direction b1 = b - Ei- labelMat[i]*(alphas[i]-alphaIold)*dataMatrix[i,:]*dataMatrix[i,:].T - labelMat[j]*(alphas[j]-alphaJold)*dataMatrix[i,:]*dataMatrix[j,:].T b2 = b - Ej- labelMat[i]*(alphas[i]-alphaIold)*dataMatrix[i,:]*dataMatrix[j,:].T - labelMat[j]*(alphas[j]-alphaJold)*dataMatrix[j,:]*dataMatrix[j,:].T if (0 < alphas[i]) and (C > alphas[i]): b = b1 elif (0 < alphas[j]) and (C > alphas[j]): b = b2 else: b = (b1 + b2)/2.0 alphaPairsChanged += 1 print ("iter: %d i:%d, pairs changed %d" % (iter,i,alphaPairsChanged)) if (alphaPairsChanged == 0): iter += 1 else: iter = 0 print ("iteration number: %d" % iter) return b,alphas def kernelTrans(X, A, kTup): #calc the kernel or transform data to a higher dimensional space m,n = shape(X) K = mat(zeros((m,1))) if kTup[0]=='lin': K = X * A.T #linear kernel elif kTup[0]=='rbf': for j in range(m): deltaRow = X[j,:] - A K[j] = deltaRow*deltaRow.T K = exp(K/(-1*kTup[1]**2)) #divide in NumPy is element-wise not matrix like Matlab else: raise NameError('Houston We Have a Problem -- \ That Kernel is not recognized') return K class optStruct: def __init__(self,dataMatIn, classLabels, C, toler, kTup): # Initialize the structure with the parameters self.X = dataMatIn self.labelMat = classLabels self.C = C self.tol = toler self.m = shape(dataMatIn)[0] self.alphas = mat(zeros((self.m,1))) self.b = 0 self.eCache = mat(zeros((self.m,2))) #first column is valid flag self.K = mat(zeros((self.m,self.m))) for i in range(self.m): self.K[:,i] = kernelTrans(self.X, self.X[i,:], kTup) def calcEk(oS, k): fXk = float(multiply(oS.alphas,oS.labelMat).T*oS.K[:,k] + oS.b) Ek = fXk - float(oS.labelMat[k]) return Ek def selectJ(i, oS, Ei): #this is the second choice -heurstic, and calcs Ej maxK = -1; maxDeltaE = 0; Ej = 0 oS.eCache[i] = [1,Ei] #set valid #choose the alpha that gives the maximum delta E validEcacheList = nonzero(oS.eCache[:,0].A)[0] if (len(validEcacheList)) > 1: for k in validEcacheList: #loop through valid Ecache values and find the one that maximizes delta E if k == i: continue #don't calc for i, waste of time Ek = calcEk(oS, k) deltaE = abs(Ei - Ek) if (deltaE > maxDeltaE): maxK = k; maxDeltaE = deltaE; Ej = Ek return maxK, Ej else: #in this case (first time around) we don't have any valid eCache values j = selectJrand(i, oS.m) Ej = calcEk(oS, j) return j, Ej def updateEk(oS, k):#after any alpha has changed update the new value in the cache Ek = calcEk(oS, k) oS.eCache[k] = [1,Ek] def innerL(i, oS): Ei = calcEk(oS, i) if ((oS.labelMat[i]*Ei < -oS.tol) and (oS.alphas[i] < oS.C)) or ((oS.labelMat[i]*Ei > oS.tol) and (oS.alphas[i] > 0)): j,Ej = selectJ(i, oS, Ei) #this has been changed from selectJrand alphaIold = oS.alphas[i].copy(); alphaJold = oS.alphas[j].copy(); if (oS.labelMat[i] != oS.labelMat[j]): L = max(0, oS.alphas[j] - oS.alphas[i]) H = min(oS.C, oS.C + oS.alphas[j] - oS.alphas[i]) else: L = max(0, oS.alphas[j] + oS.alphas[i] - oS.C) H = min(oS.C, oS.alphas[j] + oS.alphas[i]) if L==H: print( "L==H"); return 0 eta = 2.0 * oS.K[i,j] - oS.K[i,i] - oS.K[j,j] #changed for kernel if eta >= 0: print ("eta>=0"); return 0 oS.alphas[j] -= oS.labelMat[j]*(Ei - Ej)/eta oS.alphas[j] = clipAlpha(oS.alphas[j],H,L) updateEk(oS, j) #added this for the Ecache if (abs(oS.alphas[j] - alphaJold) < 0.00001): print ("j not moving enough"); return 0 oS.alphas[i] += oS.labelMat[j]*oS.labelMat[i]*(alphaJold - oS.alphas[j])#update i by the same amount as j updateEk(oS, i) #added this for the Ecache #the update is in the oppostie direction b1 = oS.b - Ei- oS.labelMat[i]*(oS.alphas[i]-alphaIold)*oS.K[i,i] - oS.labelMat[j]*(oS.alphas[j]-alphaJold)*oS.K[i,j] b2 = oS.b - Ej- oS.labelMat[i]*(oS.alphas[i]-alphaIold)*oS.K[i,j]- oS.labelMat[j]*(oS.alphas[j]-alphaJold)*oS.K[j,j] if (0 < oS.alphas[i]) and (oS.C > oS.alphas[i]): oS.b = b1 elif (0 < oS.alphas[j]) and (oS.C > oS.alphas[j]): oS.b = b2 else: oS.b = (b1 + b2)/2.0 return 1 else: return 0 def smoP(dataMatIn, classLabels, C, toler, maxIter,kTup=('lin', 0)): #full Platt SMO oS = optStruct(mat(dataMatIn),mat(classLabels).transpose(),C,toler, kTup) iter = 0 entireSet = True; alphaPairsChanged = 0 while (iter < maxIter) and ((alphaPairsChanged > 0) or (entireSet)): alphaPairsChanged = 0 if entireSet: #go over all for i in range(oS.m): alphaPairsChanged += innerL(i,oS) print ("fullSet, iter: %d i:%d, pairs changed %d" % (iter,i,alphaPairsChanged)) iter += 1 else:#go over non-bound (railed) alphas nonBoundIs = nonzero((oS.alphas.A > 0) * (oS.alphas.A < C))[0] for i in nonBoundIs: alphaPairsChanged += innerL(i,oS) print ("non-bound, iter: %d i:%d, pairs changed %d" % (iter,i,alphaPairsChanged)) iter += 1 if entireSet: entireSet = False #toggle entire set loop elif (alphaPairsChanged == 0): entireSet = True print ("iteration number: %d" % iter) return oS.b,oS.alphas def calcWs(alphas,dataArr,classLabels): X = mat(dataArr); labelMat = mat(classLabels).transpose() m,n = shape(X) w = zeros((n,1)) for i in range(m): w += multiply(alphas[i]*labelMat[i],X[i,:].T) return w def testRbf(k1=1.3): dataArr,labelArr = loadDataSet('testSetRBF.txt') b,alphas = smoP(dataArr, labelArr, 200, 0.0001, 10000, ('rbf', k1)) #C=200 important datMat=mat(dataArr); labelMat = mat(labelArr).transpose() svInd=nonzero(alphas.A>0)[0] sVs=datMat[svInd] #get matrix of only support vectors labelSV = labelMat[svInd]; print ("there are %d Support Vectors" % shape(sVs)[0]) m,n = shape(datMat) errorCount = 0 for i in range(m): kernelEval = kernelTrans(sVs,datMat[i,:],('rbf', k1)) predict=kernelEval.T * multiply(labelSV,alphas[svInd]) + b if sign(predict)!=sign(labelArr[i]): errorCount += 1 print ("the training error rate is: %f" % (float(errorCount)/m)) dataArr,labelArr = loadDataSet('testSetRBF2.txt') errorCount = 0 datMat=mat(dataArr); labelMat = mat(labelArr).transpose() m,n = shape(datMat) for i in range(m): kernelEval = kernelTrans(sVs,datMat[i,:],('rbf', k1)) predict=kernelEval.T * multiply(labelSV,alphas[svInd]) + b if sign(predict)!=sign(labelArr[i]): errorCount += 1 print ("the test error rate is: %f" % (float(errorCount)/m)) def img2vector(filename): returnVect = zeros((1,1024)) fr = open(filename) for i in range(32): lineStr = fr.readline() for j in range(32): returnVect[0,32*i+j] = int(lineStr[j]) return returnVect def loadImages(dirName): from os import listdir hwLabels = [] trainingFileList = listdir(dirName) #load the training set m = len(trainingFileList) trainingMat = zeros((m,1024)) for i in range(m): fileNameStr = trainingFileList[i] fileStr = fileNameStr.split('.')[0] #take off .txt classNumStr = int(fileStr.split('_')[0]) if classNumStr == 9: hwLabels.append(-1) else: hwLabels.append(1) trainingMat[i,:] = img2vector('%s/%s' % (dirName, fileNameStr)) return trainingMat, hwLabels def testDigits(kTup=('rbf', 10)): dataArr,labelArr = loadImages('trainingDigits') b,alphas = smoP(dataArr, labelArr, 200, 0.0001, 10000, kTup) datMat=mat(dataArr); labelMat = mat(labelArr).transpose() svInd=nonzero(alphas.A>0)[0] sVs=datMat[svInd] labelSV = labelMat[svInd]; print ("there are %d Support Vectors" % shape(sVs)[0]) m,n = shape(datMat) errorCount = 0 for i in range(m): kernelEval = kernelTrans(sVs,datMat[i,:],kTup) predict=kernelEval.T * multiply(labelSV,alphas[svInd]) + b if sign(predict)!=sign(labelArr[i]): errorCount += 1 print ("the training error rate is: %f" % (float(errorCount)/m)) dataArr,labelArr = loadImages('testDigits') errorCount = 0 datMat=mat(dataArr); labelMat = mat(labelArr).transpose() m,n = shape(datMat) for i in range(m): kernelEval = kernelTrans(sVs,datMat[i,:],kTup) predict=kernelEval.T * multiply(labelSV,alphas[svInd]) + b if sign(predict)!=sign(labelArr[i]): errorCount += 1 print ("the test error rate is: %f" % (float(errorCount)/m) ) '''#######******************************** Non-Kernel VErsions below '''#######******************************** class optStructK: def __init__(self,dataMatIn, classLabels, C, toler): # Initialize the structure with the parameters self.X = dataMatIn self.labelMat = classLabels self.C = C self.tol = toler self.m = shape(dataMatIn)[0] self.alphas = mat(zeros((self.m,1))) self.b = 0 self.eCache = mat(zeros((self.m,2))) #first column is valid flag def calcEkK(oS, k): fXk = float(multiply(oS.alphas,oS.labelMat).T*(oS.X*oS.X[k,:].T)) + oS.b Ek = fXk - float(oS.labelMat[k]) return Ek def selectJK(i, oS, Ei): #this is the second choice -heurstic, and calcs Ej maxK = -1; maxDeltaE = 0; Ej = 0 oS.eCache[i] = [1,Ei] #set valid #choose the alpha that gives the maximum delta E validEcacheList = nonzero(oS.eCache[:,0].A)[0] if (len(validEcacheList)) > 1: for k in validEcacheList: #loop through valid Ecache values and find the one that maximizes delta E if k == i: continue #don't calc for i, waste of time Ek = calcEk(oS, k) deltaE = abs(Ei - Ek) if (deltaE > maxDeltaE): maxK = k; maxDeltaE = deltaE; Ej = Ek return maxK, Ej else: #in this case (first time around) we don't have any valid eCache values j = selectJrand(i, oS.m) Ej = calcEk(oS, j) return j, Ej def updateEkK(oS, k):#after any alpha has changed update the new value in the cache Ek = calcEk(oS, k) oS.eCache[k] = [1,Ek] def innerLK(i, oS): Ei = calcEk(oS, i) if ((oS.labelMat[i]*Ei < -oS.tol) and (oS.alphas[i] < oS.C)) or ((oS.labelMat[i]*Ei > oS.tol) and (oS.alphas[i] > 0)): j,Ej = selectJ(i, oS, Ei) #this has been changed from selectJrand alphaIold = oS.alphas[i].copy(); alphaJold = oS.alphas[j].copy(); if (oS.labelMat[i] != oS.labelMat[j]): L = max(0, oS.alphas[j] - oS.alphas[i]) H = min(oS.C, oS.C + oS.alphas[j] - oS.alphas[i]) else: L = max(0, oS.alphas[j] + oS.alphas[i] - oS.C) H = min(oS.C, oS.alphas[j] + oS.alphas[i]) if L==H: print ("L==H"); return 0 eta = 2.0 * oS.X[i,:]*oS.X[j,:].T - oS.X[i,:]*oS.X[i,:].T - oS.X[j,:]*oS.X[j,:].T if eta >= 0: print ("eta>=0"); return 0 oS.alphas[j] -= oS.labelMat[j]*(Ei - Ej)/eta oS.alphas[j] = clipAlpha(oS.alphas[j],H,L) updateEk(oS, j) #added this for the Ecache if (abs(oS.alphas[j] - alphaJold) < 0.00001): print ("j not moving enough"); return 0 oS.alphas[i] += oS.labelMat[j]*oS.labelMat[i]*(alphaJold - oS.alphas[j])#update i by the same amount as j updateEk(oS, i) #added this for the Ecache #the update is in the oppostie direction b1 = oS.b - Ei- oS.labelMat[i]*(oS.alphas[i]-alphaIold)*oS.X[i,:]*oS.X[i,:].T - oS.labelMat[j]*(oS.alphas[j]-alphaJold)*oS.X[i,:]*oS.X[j,:].T b2 = oS.b - Ej- oS.labelMat[i]*(oS.alphas[i]-alphaIold)*oS.X[i,:]*oS.X[j,:].T - oS.labelMat[j]*(oS.alphas[j]-alphaJold)*oS.X[j,:]*oS.X[j,:].T if (0 < oS.alphas[i]) and (oS.C > oS.alphas[i]): oS.b = b1 elif (0 < oS.alphas[j]) and (oS.C > oS.alphas[j]): oS.b = b2 else: oS.b = (b1 + b2)/2.0 return 1 else: return 0 def smoPK(dataMatIn, classLabels, C, toler, maxIter): #full Platt SMO oS = optStruct(mat(dataMatIn),mat(classLabels).transpose(),C,toler) iter = 0 entireSet = True; alphaPairsChanged = 0 while (iter < maxIter) and ((alphaPairsChanged > 0) or (entireSet)): alphaPairsChanged = 0 if entireSet: #go over all for i in range(oS.m): alphaPairsChanged += innerL(i,oS) print ("fullSet, iter: %d i:%d, pairs changed %d" % (iter,i,alphaPairsChanged)) iter += 1 else:#go over non-bound (railed) alphas nonBoundIs = nonzero((oS.alphas.A > 0) * (oS.alphas.A < C))[0] for i in nonBoundIs: alphaPairsChanged += innerL(i,oS) print ("non-bound, iter: %d i:%d, pairs changed %d" % (iter,i,alphaPairsChanged)) iter += 1 if entireSet: entireSet = False #toggle entire set loop elif (alphaPairsChanged == 0): entireSet = True print ("iteration number: %d" % iter) return oS.b,oS.alphas
3、总结
支持向量机是一种分类器。之所以称为“机”是因为它会产生一个二值决策结果，即它是一种决策“机”。支持向量机的泛化错误率较低，也就是说它具有良好的学习能力，且学到的结果具有很好的推广性。这些优点使得支持向量机十分流行，有些人认为它是监督学习中最好的定式算法。
核方法或者说和核技巧会将数据（有时是非线性数据）从一个低维空间映射到一个高维空间，可以将一个在低维空间中的非线性问题转换成高维空间下的线性问题来求解。核方法不止在SVM中使用，还可以用于其他算法中。而其中的径向基函数是一个常用的度量两个向量距离的核函数。
支持向量机是一个二类分类器。当使用其解决多类问题时，则需要额外的方法对其进行扩展。SVM 的效果也对优化参数和所用核函数中的参数敏感。
参考文献 《机器学习实战》
