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Sequential Minimal Optimization

Machine Learning Algorithm

Sequential minimal optimization, or SMO, is an algorithm for solving the quadratic programming problem that arises when training a support-vector machine. It was invented by John Platt in 1998 at Microsoft Research, and it is widely used for training support vector machines, implemented in the popular LIBSVM tool, because earlier SVM training methods required expensive third-party quadratic programming solvers.

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Time Complexity
Time Complexity (category)
Cubic Time -- O(n^3) 1
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Source Sequential Minimal Optimization (Wikipedia)

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1. Sequential Minimal Optimization (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox: time
    O(n³)
  • Uses Design Technique: Heuristics, Article body
    Although this algorithm is guaranteed to converge, heuristics are used to choose the pair of multipliers so as to accelerate the rate of convergence.
  • In Group: Supervised and Online Learning Algorithms, Introduction
    Sequential minimal optimization (SMO) is an algorithm for solving the quadratic programming (QP) problem that arises during the training of support-vector machines (SVM).
  • In Field: Machine Learning, Lead sentence
    Sequential minimal optimization (SMO) is an algorithm for solving the quadratic programming (QP) problem that arises during the training of support-vector machines (SVM).
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