Dominance Pruning in Machine Learning for Solving Financial Trading and Real-Time Multimedia Applications

: This paper presents the design of dominance relations to reduce the space traversed in machine learning for solving two applications in financial trading and real-time multimedia. A machine-learning algorithm designed for an application with a huge search space will need to perform an efficient traversal of the space during learning. It will be more effective if it employs a powerful pruning mechanism to eliminate suboptimal candidates before using them in the learning algorithm. In our approach, we present dominance relations for pruning subspaces with suboptimal kernels that are otherwise evaluated in learning, where kernels represent the statistical quality, average density