Comment on Ask HN: What startups use C and Python?parentComments−achompas14ySibling comment is impressed, but I'm skeptical that you've improved libsvm. Sorry, can't help it. :)Can you speak a bit about how you optimized it? I took libsvm to be fairly optimized as far as SVM libraries go...−waterside8114yYeah, in terms of performance "improved" is the wrong term. We've tailored things more to our use cases, especially since we need feature weighting and multi classification, rather than simply binary classification.−achompas14yVery cool! I geek out over SVM optimizations and tweaks--have you collected your work anywhere (post? HN comment?) by any chance?−waterside8114yNot really, sorry, but we're adding a new API to be able to setup and configure your own svms. Stay tuned or follow us on twitter @repustate−the_cat_kittles14yits possible he is using a specialized kernel or something, or some other edge use case that would make optimizations more feasible
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Sibling comment is impressed, but I'm skeptical that you've improved libsvm. Sorry, can't help it. :)
Can you speak a bit about how you optimized it? I took libsvm to be fairly optimized as far as SVM libraries go...
Yeah, in terms of performance "improved" is the wrong term. We've tailored things more to our use cases, especially since we need feature weighting and multi classification, rather than simply binary classification.
Very cool! I geek out over SVM optimizations and tweaks--have you collected your work anywhere (post? HN comment?) by any chance?
Not really, sorry, but we're adding a new API to be able to setup and configure your own svms. Stay tuned or follow us on twitter @repustate
its possible he is using a specialized kernel or something, or some other edge use case that would make optimizations more feasible