Description:

Many applications in information and computer technology domains deal with structured data. For example, in Natural Language Processing (NLP), sentences are typically represented as syntactic parse trees or in Biology, chemical compounds can be represented as undirected graphs. In contrast, most Machine Learning (ML) methods and toolkits represent data as feature vectors, whose definition and computation is typically costly, especially in case of structured data. For example, the number of times a substructure appears in a structure can be an important feature. However, the number of substructures in a tree grows exponentially with the size of its nodes leading to an exponential number of structural features, which cannot thus be fully exploited in practice. A solution to the above-mentioned problem is given by Kernel Methods applied with kernel machines, e.g., SVMs or online learning models. Unfortunately, to our knowledge, except for SVM-Light-TK, there is no toolkit enabling the use of several structural kernels, e.g., several types of string, tree and graph kernels, for ML applications. Additionally, such toolkit is written in C language, which does not make it easy its extension with new kernels and new learning models. The Kernel-based Learning Platform is a Java framework that aims to facilitate kernel-based learning, in particular on structural data. It contains the implementation of several kernel machines as well as kernel functions, enabling an easy and agile definition of new methods over generic data representations, e.g., vectorial data or discrete structures, such as trees and strings. The framework has been designed to decouple kernel functions and learning algorithms thanks to the definition of specific interfaces. Once a new kernel function is implemented, it can be immediately used in all available kernel-machines, which include different online and batch algorithms for Classification, Regression and Clustering. The library is highly interoperable: data objects, kernel functions and algorithms are serializable in XML and JSON, enabling the agile definition of kernel-based learning systems. Additionally, such engineering choice allows for defining kernel and algorithm combinations by simply changing parameters in the XML and JSON files (without the need of writing new code). Finally, object serialization in KeLP facilitates the delivering of learning systems in Web Service architectures.

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Initial Announcement on mloss.org.

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Supported Operating Systems: Platform Independent

Data Formats: Multiple Representations Format

Tags: Svm, Online Learning, Kernel Methods, Java, Kernel Learning, Linear Models

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