2012/2/20 David Warde-Farley <[email protected]>:
> On 2012-02-20, at 3:46 AM, Olivier Grisel wrote:
>
>> How high dimensional is this? GraphLasso works on the empirical
>> covariance matrix which is implemented as an 2D numpy array with shape
>> (n_features, n_features). It won't fit in memory for n_features >
>> 10000 and it might be intractably too long to converge much before
>> that (I haven't tried so I cannot say).
>
> 10000 * 10000 doubles is less than a gigabyte. Is there some other source of 
> memory consumption? Most computers nowadays could handle that.

I mean this is the limit in terms of orders magnitude. The quadratic
progression of the covariance matrix size makes intractable beyond
that limit.

-- 
Olivier
http://twitter.com/ogrisel - http://github.com/ogrisel

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