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*Sai skyped in and talked a bit about his use of libSVM for classification of user history on his website cssfingerprint.com
*Sai skyped in and talked a bit about his use of libSVM for classification of user history on his website cssfingerprint.com
*We talked a little bit about libSVM [http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/]
*We talked a little bit about libSVM [http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvm/]
*Ted posted some links:
**WEKA, a variety pack of ML tools written in Java: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/
**KDD Datasets: http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/summary.data.type.html

Latest revision as of 09:18, 29 April 2010

  • Mike S presented a mathematical overview of SVMs
    • Started with introduction to linear classification [1]
    • Discussed the kernel trick [2]
    • Loosely derived the loss function and dual loss function for support vector machines [3]
    • Emphasized two important aspects of SVMs:
      • Dual problem is a quadratic programming problem that is easier to solve than the primal problem
      • After dual problem is optimized, only the support vectors (the data points whose langrangian multipliers are > 0) are needed to make predictions for new data (and their associated multipliers)
  • Thomas talked about the KDD conference and their data competition [4]
  • Sai skyped in and talked a bit about his use of libSVM for classification of user history on his website cssfingerprint.com
  • We talked a little bit about libSVM [5]
  • Ted posted some links: