2012/9/9 Mathieu Blondel <[email protected]>:
> I've just tried scipy.sparse.linalg.lsqr [*] on the full news20 dataset. On
> my box it takes 8 seconds to run with tol=1e-3 and 5 seconds with tol=1e-2
> without any accuracy loss. It also solves the memory problem mentioned by
> Lars, as it works directly with X and y.
>
> Unlike scipy.linalg.lsqr, scipy.sparse.linalg.lsqr supports a regularization
> term so it can actually be used to implement Ridge. Also, despite the name,
> it supports dense arrays too so it may be worth comparing it with
> solver="dense_cholesky" in the dense case. It cannot be used if
> sample_weight != 1.0 though.

Sounds great! Another noob question then: why won't it handle
sample_weight? Would it be possible to transform y using a
LabelBinarizer and multiply sample_weight in?

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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