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From: [log in to unmask]>SatPrem Reddy

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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 8:25 PM

Subject: analyze the performance of svm - urgent

Hi all,

    I am currently writing a paper on comparison of SVMs, neural nets and 

KNN classifiers for digit recognition when the training set is very small. We

have created our own dataset, with 250 training samples and 2047 testing

samples. In my experiments, I observed that while linear SVM gives an

accuracy of 81.44%, polynomial, RBF and sigmoid kernels give accuracy

of about 20%. I am unable to understand why there is such a big difference

in their performance. If somebody could clarify why this is happening, I'd be

glad.

-P.SatPrem Reddy