Performance and optimization of support vector machines in high-energy   physics classification problems
  In this paper we promote the use of Support Vector Machines (SVM) as a machine learning tool for searches in high-energy physics. As an example for a new- physics search we discuss the popular case of Supersymmetry at the Large Hadron Collider. We demonstrate that the SVM is a valuable tool and show that an automated discovery- significance based optimization of the SVM hyper-parameters is a highly efficient way to prepare an SVM for such applications. A new C++ LIBSVM interface called SVM-HINT is developed and available on Github. 
Mehmet \"Ozg\"ur Sahin, Dirk Kr\"ucker and Isabell-Alissandra   Melzer-Pellmann
hep-ex