Expediting model selection for support vector machines based on data reduction

In recent years, Support Vector Machines (SVM) have been extensively applied to deal with various data classification problems. However, in some cases, the application of SVM is limited due to the time taken to conduct model selection for SVM. This issue is of particular significant for some modern applications, such as web mining, in which the large-scale database is frequently updated. This paper proposes a data reduction based mechanism aimed at expediting the model selection process in SVM. Experimental results show that the proposed mechanism is able to greatly reduce the time taken to carry out model selection at minimum cost.