When training a multinomial classifier (7 different classes) with different feature sets, I am noticing that the learning curve error always peaks around the number of training samples that are equal to the number of features used in training. I am using k-fold cross validation with k 10 for generating the learning curve. In the example below, I am using around 500 features for training. I am using a Gaussian Discriminant Analysis model for learning. If I change the number of features, the peak follows.

Learn more about the technology behind auto-sklearn by reading this paper published at the NIPS 2015 . This will run for one hour should result in an accuracy above 0.98. Prerequisities: auto-sklearn is written in python and was developed with Ubuntu. It should run on other Linux distributions, but won't work on a MAC or on a windows PC. It is built around scikit-learn 0.17.1 We recommend installing auto-sklearn into a virtual environment or into an anaconda environment.. The subprojects it uses, most notably SMAC, can have different licenses.

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