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LIBLINEAR: A Library for Large Linear Classification

Rong-En Fan, Kai-Wei Chang, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Xiang-Rui Wang, Chih-Jen Lin · Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR) (2008)

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Principal Contribution

Engineered coordinate descent solvers for L1/L2 regularized linear SVMs and logistic regression, scaling linear models to millions of instances.

Operational Relevance

Serves as canonical technical reference for implementing task-binary-classification, task-multiclass-classification, task-regression in production systems.

Assumptions

  • Underlying data distribution satisfies empirical consistency and regularity assumptions across training domains

Limitations

  • Scaling characteristics and accuracy depend on hardware architecture, parameter scale, and dataset quality

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