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LIBLINEAR-TRAIN(1) General Commands Manual LIBLINEAR-TRAIN(1)

NAME

liblinear-train - train a linear classifier and produce a model

SYNOPSIS

liblinear-train [options] training_set_file [model_file]
 

DESCRIPTION

liblinear-train trains a linear classifier using liblinear and produces a model suitable for use with liblinear-predict(1).
 
training_set_file is the file containing the data used for training. model_file is the file to which the model will be saved. If model_file is not provided, it defaults to training_set_file.model.
 
To obtain good performances, sometimes one needs to scale the data. This can be done with svm-scale(1).

OPTIONS

A summary of options is included below.
-s type
Set the type of the solver:
 
0 ... L2-regularized logistic regression
 
1 ... L2-regularized L2-loss support vector classification (dual) (default)
 
2 ... L2-regularized L2-loss support vector classification (primal)
 
3 ... L2-regularized L1-loss support vector classification (dual)
 
4 ... multi-class support vector classification
 
5 ... L1-regularized L2-loss support vector classification
 
6 ... L1-regularized logistic regression
 
7 ... L2-regularized logistic regression (dual)
-c cost
Set the parameter C (default: 1)
-e epsilon
Set the tolerance of the termination criterion
 
For -s 0 and 2:
 
|f'(w)|_2 <= epsilon*min(pos,neg)/l*|f'(w0)_2, where f is the primal function and pos/neg are the number of positive/negative data (default: 0.01)
For -s 1, 3, 4 and 7:
 
Dual maximal violation <=  epsilon; similar to libsvm (default: 0.1)
For -s 5 and 6:
 
|f'(w)|_inf <=  epsilon*min(pos,neg)/l*|f'(w0)|_inf, where f is the primal
function (default:  0.01)
-B bias
If  bias >= 0, then instance x becomes [x; bias]; if bias < 0, then
no bias term is added (default:  -1)
    
-wi weight
Weight-adjusts the parameter C of class  i by the value weight
    
-v n
n-fold cross validation mode
    
-q
Quiet mode (no outputs).
    

EXAMPLES

Train a linear SVM using L2-loss function:
 
 liblinear-train data_file
 
Train a logistic regression model:
 
 liblinear-train -s 0 data_file
 
Do five-fold cross-validation using L2-loss SVM, using a smaller stopping tolerance 0.001 instead of the default 0.1 for more accurate solutions:
 
 liblinear-train -v 5 -e 0.001 data_file
 
Train four classifiers:
 
positive negative Cp Cn
 
class 1 class 2,3,4 20 10
 
class 2 class 1,3,4 50 10
 
class 3 class 1,2,4 20 10
 
class 4 class 1,2,3 10 10
 
 liblinear-train -c 10 -w1 2 -w2 5 -w3 2 four_class_data_file
 
If there are only two classes, we train ONE model. The C values for the two classes are 10 and 50:
 
 liblinear-train -c 10 -w3 1 -w2 5 two_class_data_file
 
Output probability estimates (for logistic regression only) using liblinear-predict(1):
 
 liblinear-predict -b 1 test_file data_file.model output_file

SEE ALSO

liblinear-predict(1), svm-predict(1), svm-train(1)

AUTHORS

liblinear-train was written by the LIBLINEAR authors at National Taiwan university for the LIBLINEAR Project.
This manual page was written by Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
March 8, 2011