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Shogun (toolbox)

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Written in
  
C++

Type
  
Machine learning

Original author(s)
  
Gunnar Rätsch Soeren Sonnenburg

Developer(s)
  
Soeren Sonnenburg Sergey Lisitsyn Heiko Strathmann Fernando Iglesias Viktor Gal

Stable release
  
4.0.0 / January 26, 2015 (2015-01-26)

Operating system
  
Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin

Shogun is a free, open source toolbox written in C++. It offers numerous algorithms and data structures for machine learning problems.

Contents

Shogun is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

Description

The focus of Shogun is on kernel machines such as support vector machines for regression and classification problems. Shogun also offers a full implementation of Hidden Markov models. The core of Shogun is written in C++ and offers interfaces for MATLAB, Octave, Python, R, Java, Lua, Ruby and C#. Shogun has been under active development since 1999. Today there is a vibrant user community all over the world using Shogun as a base for research and education, and contributing to the core package.

Supported algorithms

Currently Shogun supports the following algorithms:

  • Support vector machines
  • Dimensionality reduction algorithms, such as PCA, Kernel PCA, Locally Linear Embedding, Hessian Locally Linear Embedding, Local Tangent Space Alignment, Linear Local Tangent Space Alignment, Kernel Locally Linear Embedding, Kernel Local Tangent Space Alignment, Multidimensional Scaling, Isomap, Diffusion Maps, Laplacian Eigenmaps
  • Online learning algorithms such as SGD-QN, Vowpal Wabbit
  • Clustering algorithms: k-means and GMM
  • Kernel Ridge Regression, Support Vector Regression
  • Hidden Markov Models
  • K-Nearest Neighbors
  • Linear discriminant analysis
  • Kernel Perceptrons.

    • Many different kernels are implemented, ranging from kernels for numerical data (such as gaussian or linear kernels) to kernels on special data (such as strings over certain alphabets). The currently implemented kernels for numeric data include:

  • linear
  • gaussian
  • polynomial
  • sigmoid kernels

    • The supported kernels for special data include:

  • Spectrum
  • Weighted Degree
  • Weighted Degree with Shifts

    • The latter group of kernels allows processing of arbitrary sequences over fixed alphabets such as DNA sequences as well as whole e-mail texts.

    Special features

    As Shogun was developed with bioinformatics applications in mind it is capable of processing huge datasets consisting of up to 10 million samples. Shogun supports the use of pre-calculated kernels. It is also possible to use a combined kernel i.e. a kernel consisting of a linear combination of arbitrary kernels over different domains. The coefficients or weights of the linear combination can be learned as well. For this purpose Shogun offers a multiple kernel learning functionality.

    References

    Shogun (toolbox) Wikipedia
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