With StompChicken's corrections (I miscomputed one dot product, ugh!) the answer appears to be yes. I have since tested the same problem using a precomputed kernel with the same correct results. If...

When creating a libsvm training file, how do you differentiate between a nominal attribute verses a numeric attribute? I'm trying to encode certain nominal attributes as integers, but I want to ens...

I'm new to SVMs, and I'm trying to use the Python interface to libsvm to classify a sample containing a mean and stddev. However, I'm getting nonsensical results. Is this task inappropriate for SV...

I have been trying to grasp the basics of Support Vector Machines, and downloaded and read many online articles. But still am not able to grasp it. I would like to know, if there are some ...

Binarization is the act of transforming colorful features of of an entity into vectors of numbers, most often binary vectors, to make good examples for classifier algorithms. If we where to binari...