[Scikit-learn-general] PCA nipals and SparsePCA

2014-05-30 Thread Luca Puggini
Hi Bertrand, I am not familiar with RandomizedPCA so I do not known if nipals is faster than RandomizedPCA. It is for sure faster than SVD when we are interested only in few components. My impression is that RandomizedPCA is an approximation of PCA while nipals should be an algorithm that theoreti

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Anyone experience hanging when parallelizing fits?

2014-05-30 Thread Fernando Perez
We've confirmed it was an MKL threading deadlock: https://github.com/joblib/joblib/issues/138#issuecomment-44682214 Cheers, f -- Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download htt

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] A question about the SVM module

2014-05-30 Thread Nelle Varoquaux
Hello, Indeed, SVM methods only work with positive definite kernels (as all kernel methods in Machine Learning). This is because you can view pd kernel as inner product, which you can't if the kernel isn't pd. Kernel methods (including SVM) "only" replace inner products with kernels, thus mapping t

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Anyone experience hanging when parallelizing fits?

2014-05-30 Thread Lars Buitinck
2014-05-30 22:34 GMT+02:00 Anders Aagaard : > Which blas implementation are you using? openblas is known to cause this > issue. Same thought here, but this time it's MKL. -- Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web A

Re: [Scikit-learn-general] Anyone experience hanging when parallelizing fits?

2014-05-30 Thread Anders Aagaard
Which blas implementation are you using? openblas is known to cause this issue. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:51 AM, Ronnie Ghose wrote: > hmm this is going to be annoying, but have you debugged it at all e.g. have > you tried seeing if you can find where it is at when it hits that 0 cpu? / > try pri