On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 10:35 AM, Mathieu Blondel <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 11:27 PM, Ian Goodfellow <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>>
>> I think I've figured out what the problem is, but someone familiar
>> with the code should confirm.
>> I think SVC is always using a decision function based on support
>> vectors, even though in the case of a linear kernel it is
>> computationally cheaper to just do one dot product in feature space.
>>
>
> Correct. I guess we just assumed that people would use LinearSVC when using
> a linear kernel...

Unless something has changed in the last few months, LinearSVC isn't
feasible for
large, dense, datasets. It forces a copy of the dataset into a sparse
matrix format,
so you end up using something like 4X the memory of SVC.

>
> A PR implementing decision_function and predict based on coef_ would be
> welcome.
>
> Mathieu
>
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