How to use SVMs and kernel methods effectively

If you want tips on some of the practical issues of using SVMs and kernel methods, take a look at these papers:

General issues in using SVMs:

• Asa Ben-Hur and Jason Weston. A user’s guide to support vector machines.

SVMs and Kernels for analyzing protein/DNA sequence data:

• Asa Ben-Hur, Cheng Soon Ong, Soeren Sonnenburg, Bernhard Schoelkopf, and Gunnar Raetsch. Support Vector Machines and Kernels for Computational Biology. PLoS Computational Biology 4(10): e1000173, 2008. [ Web supplement] PyML code for the tutorial is available here