2013/5/7 Peter Prettenhofer <[email protected]>:
> Do you need probabilities? You could just use the signed distance to each
> OVA hyperplane (via ``clf.decision_function()``) to rank the classes. Maybe
> the platt-scaling screws up here...

The more I find out about Platt scaling in LibSVM, the more I'm
inclined to stay away from it.

> You could also look at Mathieu's "lightning" project
> https://github.com/mblondel/lightning  - it features multinomial logistic
> regression which might give better calibrated probabilities than platt
> scaling...

Or our own LogisticRegression. It cuts some corners, but sometimes
it's good enough.

-- 
Lars Buitinck
Scientific programmer, ILPS
University of Amsterdam

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