On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Nowal, Akshay <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I am at a beginner level in using Mahout and m planning to build a > classifier on Customer data to classify churners and non-churners using > support vector machine(SVM). > The easiest way to do this is to add a hinge-loss variant to the SGD algorithm already in Mahout (see OnlineLogisticRegression for an example using logistic loss). > > Currently does any parallelized algorithm SVM is available? > Not currently. But how large is your data in any case? Do you actually need a parallelized algorithm?
