How many training instances do you have?
On Nov 10, 2011 7:21 PM, "Andreas Müller" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 11/10/2011 12:18 AM, Gael Varoquaux wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 11:00:34PM +0100, Andreas Mueller wrote:
> >> As in the other thread, usually one has to scan for parameters any way.
> >> Computing every value just once and then storing it seems ok to me. For
> >> example, for the chi2 kernel, there is very efficient code available by
> >> Christoph Lampert using SSE2 instructions. I used precomputed kernel
> >> matrices for multi instance kernels. I could easily implement them on
> >> the GPU using batches and then store them one and for all. If I had to
> >> do memory transfers for every single example that I need the kernel
> >> for, it would be very slow.
> >> Maybe these are special use cases but I think they are valid ones.
> > They are, but the question is: can they be answered in a toolkit meant to
> > be used from Python, where there is a large function-call overhead? I
> > don't know the answer to this question, to be fair, I am just raising it.
> Maybe I wasn't clear in making my point: I was trying to say
> that computing the whole gram matrix worked just fine for me.
>
> I think the large function call overhead makes other solutions
> impractical.
>
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