SVM TRAIN - WARNING ABOUT SINGULAR MATRIX
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Hello, I am using SVMTRAIN and sometimes it gives me this warning:
Warning: Matrix is close to singular or badly scaled.
Results may be inaccurate. RCOND = 5.646367e-131.
What can I do to fix this ? is it really bad if I keep my algo this way ?
thank you
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Ilya
on 4 Mar 2013
This warning is thrown by the backslash operator \ when it solves the linear system based on the kernel matrix. You don't need to fix this. You just need to keep in mind that the solution (alphas) in this case is not unique because the matrix is singular. If you'd like to learn more, search Answers or the newsgroup for posts comparing the backslash operator and pinv. If the obtained SVM model is accurate, as measured by cross-validation or using independent test data, use it.
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Walter Roberson
on 1 Mar 2013
An rcond that low is pretty much saying that the matrix is singular for numeric purposes. Your results are likely to be quite wrong.
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