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A Polylog Pivot Steps Simplex Algorithm for Classification
Elad Hazan · Zohar S Karnin

Tue Dec 04 07:00 PM -- 12:00 AM (PST) @ Harrah’s Special Events Center 2nd Floor

We present a simplex algorithm for linear programming in a linear classification formulation. The paramount complexity parameter in linear classification problems is called the margin. We prove that for margin values of practical interest our simplex variant performs a polylogarithmic number of pivot steps in the worst case, and its overall running time is near linear. This is in contrast to general linear programming, for which no sub-polynomial pivot rule is known.

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Elad Hazan (Technion)
Zohar S Karnin (Yahoo! Research)

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