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libsvm predict method confusion

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Full question
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4542...

Answer 1 links:
http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net/

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ACCEPTED ANSWER

Score 5


It uses the true labels to give you accuracy statistics in case you are doing an out-of-sample test.

If you are running it "online", i.e. you actually don't have the true labels, then just put [0]*len(z) instead of y




ANSWER 2

Score 1


You might consider using

http://scikit-learn.sourceforge.net/

That has a great python binding of libsvm