On 17/04/2012, Gael Varoquaux <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 02:56:13PM +0200, Lars Buitinck wrote:
>> >> > This way people who don't read the doc (the majority of the users)
>> >> > will not fall in the libsvm-gives-different-results trap and will
>> >> > have
>> >> > the tools to not fall in the statistical inconsistency trap if they
>> >> > make the effort to read the doc.
>
>> >> + .5
>
>> > +1
>
>> +1
>
> It seems to me that we are hearing here the people with large number of
> samples who do not have the problems that scale_C=False creates saying
> that they prefer this default choice.
>
> :(. Basically the impression that I have is that either choice we take,
> we are breaking the library for a set of users.
>
>> > And we could add a warning in grid_search.py:
>
>> > if not getattr(clf, "scale_C", True):
>> >     warning.warning("scale_C=False is not recommended when using grid
>> > search: see http:// for a discussion")
>
>> I'm not very fond of adding estimator-specific heuristics to
>> general-purpose modules...
>
> I agree. This is a clearly a code smell, telling us that something is
> wrong with our objects: they are unable to abstract out enough the
> details of the model.
>
> G
>
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