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Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by syntaxing on Thursday March 23, 2017 @11:24AM (#13940541)
Good to know, I did not know that! I kind of wish scikit had some sort of CUDA capabilities to speed things up.
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Re:A Quick Look at Support Vector Machines by nl on Thursday March 23, 2017 @06:10PM (#13944811)
Scikit uses numpy which uses BLAS which can be implemented with nvBLAS[1]. I don't know what it takes to get this setup and how much performance boost it gives for SVMs though.

[1] https://developer.nvidia.com/cublas

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