NAME

svm-train - train one or more SVM instance(s) on a given data set to produce a model file

SYNOPSIS

svm-train [-s svm_type ] [ -t kernel_type ] [ -d degree ] [ -g gamma ] [ -r coef0 ] [ -c cost ] [ -n nu ] [ -p epsilon ] [ -m cachesize ] [ -e epsilon ] [ -h shrinking ] [ -b probability_estimates ] ] [ -wi weight ] [ -v n ] [ -q ]

training_set_file [ model_file ]

DESCRIPTION

svm-train trains a Support Vector Machine to learn the data indicated in the training_set_file
and produce a model_file
to save the results of the learning optimization. This model can be used later with svm_predict(1) or other LIBSVM enabled software.

OPTIONS

-s svm_type

svm_type defaults to 0 and can be any value between 0 and 4 as follows:

0

-- C-SVC

1

-- nu-SVC

2

-- one-class SVM

3

-- epsilon-SVR

4

-- nu-SVR

-t kernel_type

kernel_type defaults to 2 (Radial Basis Function (RBF) kernel) and can be any value between 0 and 4 as follows:

0

-- linear: u.v

1

-- polynomial: (gamma*u.v + coef0)^degree

2

-- radial basis function: exp(-gamma*|u-v|^2)

3

-- sigmoid: tanh(gamma*u.v + coef0)

4

-- precomputed kernel (kernel values in training_set_file) --

-d degree

Sets the degree of the kernel function, defaulting to 3

-g gamma

Adjusts the gamma in the kernel function (default 1/k)

-r coef0

Sets the coef0 (constant offset) in the kernel function (default 0)

-c cost

Sets the parameter C ( cost ) of C-SVC, epsilon-SVR, and nu-SVR (default 1)

-n nu

Sets the parameter nu of nu-SVC, one-class SVM, and nu-SVR (default 0.5)

-p epsilon

Set the epsilon in the loss function of epsilon-SVR (default 0.1)

-m cachesize

Set the cache memory size to cachesize in MB (default 100)

-e epsilon

Set the tolerance of termination criterion to epsilon (default 0.001)

-h shrinking

Whether to use the shrinking
heuristics, 0 or 1 (default 1)

-b probability-estimates

probability_estimates is a binary value indicating whether to calculate probability estimates when training the SVC or SVR model. Values are 0 or 1 and defaults to 0 for speed.

-wi weight

Set the parameter C (cost) of class i to weight*C, for C-SVC (default 1)

-v n

Set n for n -fold cross validation mode

-q

quiet mode; suppress messages to stdout.

FILES

training_set_file must be prepared in the following simple sparse training vector format:

<label> <index1>:<value1> <index2>:<value2> . . .

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There is one sample per line. Each sample consists of a target value (label or regression target) followed by a sparse representation of the input vector. All unmentioned coordinates are assumed to be 0. For classification, <label> is an integer indicating the class label (multi-class is supported). For regression, <label> is the target value which can be any real number. For one-class SVM, it's not used so can be any number. Except using precomputed kernels (explained in another section), <index>:<value> gives a feature (attribute) value. <index> is an integer starting from 1 and <value> is a real number. Indices must be in an ASCENDING order.

ENVIRONMENT

No environment variables.

DIAGNOSTICS

None documented; see Vapnik et al.

BUGS

Please report bugs to the Debian BTS.

AUTHOR

Chih-Chung Chang, Chih-Jen Lin <cjlin@csie.ntu.edu.tw>, Chen-Tse Tsai <ctse.tsai@gmail.com> (packaging)

SEE ALSO

svm-predict(1), svm-scale(1)