Matlab libsvm - how to find the w coefficients

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Trup picture Trup · Apr 12, 2012 · Viewed 18.8k times · Source

How can find what the vector w is, i.e. the perpendicular to the separation plane?

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Richante picture Richante · Apr 13, 2012

This is how I did it here. If I remember correctly, this is based on how the dual form of the SVM optimisation works out.

model = svmtrain(...);
w = (model.sv_coef' * full(model.SVs));

And the bias is (and I don't really remember why its negative):

bias = -model.rho;

Then to do the classification (for a linear SVM), for a N-by-M dataset 'features' with N instances and M features,

predictions = sign(features * w' + bias);

If the kernel is not linear, then this won't give you the right answer.

For more information see How could I generate the primal variable w of linear SVM? , from the manual of libsvm.

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