Shogun (Toolbox)

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Shogun (toolbox)

Free and open-


source software Shogun machine learning
portal toolbox

Shogun is a free, open-source machine learning software library


written in C++. It offers numerous algorithms and data
structures for machine learning problems. It offers interfaces for
Octave, Python, R, Java, Lua, Ruby and C# using SWIG.

It is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public


License version 3 or later.
Shogun mac os

Description
Original author(s) Gunnar Rätsch
The focus of Shogun is on kernel machines such as support
Soeren
vector machines for regression and classification problems.
Sonnenburg
Shogun also offers a full implementation of Hidden Markov
models. The core of Shogun is written in C++ and offers Developer(s) Soeren
interfaces for MATLAB, Octave, Python, R, Java, Lua, Ruby Sonnenburg
and C#. Shogun has been under active development since 1999. Sergey Lisitsyn
Today there is a vibrant user community all over the world Heiko Strathmann
using Shogun as a base for research and education, and Fernando Iglesias
contributing to the core package.
Viktor Gal
Stable release 6.0.0 /
Supported algorithms April 25, 2017
Repository github.com
Currently Shogun supports the following algorithms:
/shogun-toolbox
Support vector machines /shogun (https://gi
Dimensionality reduction algorithms, such as PCA, thub.com/shogun
Kernel PCA, Locally Linear Embedding, Hessian -toolbox/shogun)
Locally Linear Embedding, Local Tangent Space
Written in C++
Alignment, Linear Local Tangent Space Alignment,
Kernel Locally Linear Embedding, Kernel Local Operating system Cross-platform
Tangent Space Alignment, Multidimensional Scaling, Type Software library
Isomap, Diffusion Maps, Laplacian Eigenmaps
License BSD3 with
Online learning algorithms such as SGD-QN, Vowpal
Wabbit optional GNU
Clustering algorithms: k-means and GMM GPLv3
Kernel Ridge Regression, Support Vector Regression Website www.shogun.ml
Hidden Markov Models (http://www.shogu
K-Nearest Neighbors n.ml/)
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 A screenshot taken under Mac OS X


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
S. Sonnenburg, G. Rätsch, S. Henschel, C. Widmer, J. Behr, A. Zien, F. De Bona, A. Binder,
C. Gehl and V. Franc: The SHOGUN Machine Learning Toolbox, Journal of Machine
Learning Research, 11:1799−1802, June 11, 2010.
M. Gashler. Waffles: A Machine Learning Toolkit. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 12
(July):2383–2387, 2011.
P. Vincent, Y. Bengio, N. Chapados, and O. Delalleau. Plearn high-performance machine
learning library. URL http://plearn.berlios.de/.

External links
Shogun toolbox homepage (http://www.shogun-toolbox.org/)
shogun (https://github.com/shogun-toolbox/shogun) on GitHub
"SHOGUN" (http://freecode.com/projects/shogun/). Freecode.
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