2012/2/13 Olivier Grisel <[email protected]>:
> I don't know for the polynomial kernel part but since C is scale
> according to the number of sample, C=1e4 or more is required for text
> classification.

I finally had time to try this out. You're absolutely right; C should
be around 1e11 for a quadratic kernel SVM to be competitive on 20
newsgroups (with feature selection). Thanks!

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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