Re: svmtrain/svmclassify

[Juan Pablo Carbajal]

On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Carnë Draug <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8 December 2012 23:20, Ben P <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I recently did a support vector machine project.  It's at the point where I
>> don't think it'd be too much more work to add a simple svmtrain/svmclassify
>> to Octave.
>>
>> Would there be any interest in something like this?  What package would it
>> belong in?  I didn't notice a machine learning package.
>
> Hi Ben
>
> in Matlab these two functions appear to be in the bioinformatics
> toolbox so my guess is that it would also go in the bioinfo package.
> The package is currently unmaintained but if you submit those two
> functions I'd be happy to include them.
>
> Carnë

I do not think support vector machines would be easy, nor natural to
find in the bioinformatics package.

I would suggest to merge nnet and svm into a single package called
machine-learning.

Remember that the packages do allow to have sub-folders so the
packages can be merged transparently.

So we could have

main
|__ machine-learning
      |__ inst
            |__ svm
            |__ nnet
            |__ gp (gaussian processes, comming soon)

What do you think?
I can help with the merging, I have done it before.