lisa-lab/pylearn — Issue #63: Benchmark SVM implementations. Make something competitive with MATLAB
Author: goodfeli
Created: 2012-03-02 17:22:00+00:00
State: open

For reference, Adam Coates has matlab implementations of SVMs in some of his code demos (eg AISTATS 11, ICML 11).

http://www.stanford.edu/~acoates/

The multicore aspect of matlab makes his SVM implementations a lot faster. Also, he can do an L2 SVM, a feature which in python is only available for sparse input matrices (via liblinear wrapped in scikits.learn) as far as I know.