Hi, The following paper might help: Benchmarking Support Vector Machines by David Meyer, Friedrich Leisch, Kurt Hornik http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/am/Download/report78.pdf It compares 16 classification methods with svm classification and 9 regression methods with svm regression. Hope this helps Chih-Jen >>>>> "MP" == Marc Parham <[log in to unmask]> writes: MP> Hi Everyone, I am doing research on a comparison of neural MP> networks compared to SVM. Does anyone know of a recent review MP> article or paper that does a direct comparison of the two (or MP> more techniques) where a large portion of the database was MP> withheld as a truly independent test of the algorithms MP> produced. This subset would not be used to generate or select MP> the final model, but run after all model generation and MP> selection is complete. Hopefully the article would pinpoint MP> the advantage of SVM with a specific example. Thanks , Marc MP> Parham --