Just test out libsvm against log regression on a sample of your data to get an 
understanding of upside downside for your particular problem 

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> On 24 Dec 2013, at 15:55, Tharindu Rusira <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Thanks all for the words of wisdom :) ,
> 
> @Ted, I'm coming from a text mining background. Many text books recommend
> SVM because of its impressive performance with vectors having a larger
> cardinality which is the usual case when dealing with text documents. Do
> you think logistic regression would perform as good as SVM for text mining
> applications?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:47 PM, unmesha sreeveni 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
> 
>> You can paralize svm using same equations (which has slight difference)
>> explained in
>> 
>> http://books.google.co.in/books/about/DATA_MINING.html?id=IYc2muhCbmEC&redir_esc=y
>> 
>> But i dont gaurentee about the performance. for some 100 MB data it takes
>> 10 min to train the data.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 3:30 PM, tuku <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> someone tried to implement SVM in a summer google code but it turns out
>> map
>>> reduced version of svm is too difficult to implement and they dropped the
>>> project.
>>> I bet you can train via libsvm and use just classification part with map
>>> reduce but if I have a choice I prefer logistic regression too
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>>> "Fish don't know they're in water."
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>> life
>>> in your years."
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>> what
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>>> "Remember, happiness is a way of travel not a destination"
>>> "A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 24 December 2013 11:11, Ted Dunning <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> You might try logistic regression with regularization for a very
>> similar
>>>> result.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 11:57 PM, Sebastian Schelter <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Tharindu,
>>>>> 
>>>>> There is no SVM implementation in an official release.
>>>>> 
>>>>> --sebastian
>>>>> 
>>>>>> On 24.12.2013 08:02, Tharindu Rusira wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>> Do we have a SVM implementation in Mahout(either sequential or
>>>>> mapreduce)?
>>>>>> I was searching in JIRA and MAHOUT-14[1] proposes a SVM
>>> implementation
>>>>> and
>>>>>> also MAHOUT-334, MAHOUT-232  have patches available for SVM.
>>>>>> Are these codes available in any Mahout release? Because the
>> comments
>>>> in
>>>>>> these issues suggest otherwise.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> [1]
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-14?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20text%20~%20%22svm%22
>>>>>> [2]
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-334?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20text%20~%20%22svm%22
>>>>>> [3]
>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAHOUT-232?jql=project%20%3D%20MAHOUT%20AND%20text%20~%20%22svm%22
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> *Thanks & Regards*
>> 
>> Unmesha Sreeveni U.B
>> 
>> *Junior Developer*
>> http://www.unmeshasreeveni.blogspot.in/
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
> University of Moratuwa,
> Sri Lanka.
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