CONTRIBUTIONS

We integrated the work of the following people:

(See below for number of commits per developer)

Individual contributions

Alex J. Smola - the pr_loqo optimizer

Antoine Bordes - LaRank

Thorsten Joachims - SVMLight

Chih-Chung Chang and and Chih-Jen Lin - LibSVM

Xiang-Rui Wang and Chih-Jen Lin - LIBLINEAR

Thomas Serafini, Luca Zanni, Gaetano Zanghirati - the Gradient Projection Decomposition Technique (GPDT) - SVM

Vikas Sindhwani - SVM-lin: Fast SVM Solvers for Supervised and Semi-supervised Learning

Vojtech Franc - Generalized Nearest Point Problem Solver based L2 (slacks) SVM - Optimized Cutting Plane Support Vector Machines (Ocas)

Jean-Philippe Vert and Hiroto Saigo - Local Alignment Kernel

Leon Bottou - Stochastic Gradient Descent (SGD) SVM

Marius Kloft - 2-norm and q-norm MKL - SMO based true Multi-Class SVM

Alexander Zien - Newton based q-norm MKL - POIM code for WD kernels

Christian Gehl - Distance Metrics

Christian Widmer - Dual and Multitask Learning - Serialization support

Jonas Behr - Structured Learning

Elpmis Lee - Translation of the documentation to Chinese

Baozeng Ding - Support for modular java, c#, ruby, lua interfaces

Shashwat Lal Das - Streaming / Online Feature Framework for SimpleFeatures, SparseFeatures, StringFeatures, SGD-QN, Online SGD, Online Liblinear, Online Vowpal Vabit

Heiko Strathmann - Model selection/Cross-validation for arbitrary Machines - Statistics module - Subset support in features - Various bugfixes and structural improvements - Serialization improvements and fixes/ Migration framework - Machine Locking for precomputed kernel matrices - Statistical hypothesis testing framework / Kernel Two-Sample/Independence tests

Alesis Novik - Gaussian Mixture Models

Evgeniy Andreev: - FibonacciHeap - Python 3 support - CoverTree - HashSet

Justin Patera - Ruby examples

Daniel Korn - C# examples

Fernando José Iglesias Garcia - Generic multiclass OvO training - Quadratic Discriminant Analysis

J. Liu, S. Ji and J. Ye - SLEP: A Sparse Learning Package C and ported code

J. Zhou, J. Chen and J. Ye - MALSAR: Multi-tAsk Learning via StructurAL Regularization ported code

Histogram

Number of commits per developer (last updated: 6. Nov 2014)

git log --format='%aN' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

      1 Abhinav Agarwalla
      1 AlexBinder
      1 Ameer Ayoub
      1 asia
      1 Cesar Fuentes
      1 Christoph Lampert
      1 cwidmer
      1 Daniel Matthew Korn
      1 deerishi
      1 dmkorn
      1 Elpmis Lee
      1 foulwall
      1 Ingvaras Merkys
      1 itsuper7
      1 jacobw
      1 jey1401
      1 Josh Klontz
      1 kislayabhi
      1 Kyle
      1 Kyle McQuisten
      1 lisitsyn
      1 Live session user
      1 Matt Aasted
      1 Nico Goernitz
      1 Nightrain
      1 Orion Poplawski
      1 parijat
      1 Peter Romov
      1 pl
      1 rahul
      1 ryan
      1 Sergey Bartunov
      1 Steve Lianoglou
      1 Vipin
      1 Vladimir Perić
      1 zhh210
      2 Dhruv Jawali
      2 Jacob Walker
      2 liqiang
      2 Monique
      2 Vipin T Sreedharan
      2 Wittawat Jitkrittum
      2 ZhengyangL
      3 Hidekazu Oiwa
      3 Matt Huska
      3 monicadragan
      3 thereisnoknife
      3 Yaroslav Halchenko
      3 Ziyuan Lin
      4 dhruv13j
      4 heiko
      4 hwl596
      4 M.A. Bautista
      4 Miguel Angel Bautista
      4 Mikio Braun
      4 Rafał Surowiecki
      4 Victor Sadkov
      4 vigsterkr
      4 vipints
      5 frank0523
      5 root
      6 ahcorde
      6 Koen van de Sande
      6 lionelc
      6 Patrick Pletscher
      7 Abhinav Maurya
      7 Philippe Tillet
      8 Harshit Syal
      8 Marcin Copik
      9 Andrew
      9 cameron
     10 Siddharth Kherada
     12 Sunil Mahendrakar
     12 Torsten Werner
     13 Abinash Panda
     15 Cheng Soon Ong
     15 Saurabh7
     17 Evan Shelhamer
     17 ptizoom
     19 Soumyajit De
     19 [email protected]
     19 Vojtech Franc
     20 Jakub Jirku
     21 jiaolong
     22 Konrad Rieck
     24 Yuyu Zhang
     25 Christian Gehl
     25 Kevin Hughes
     27 hushell
     28 Daniel Pyrathon
     31 Michal Uricar
     32 abinashpanda
     36 pluskid
     38 Saurabh
     40 Alexander Binder
     40 Björn Esser
     41 Justin Patera
     44 Alexander Zien
     44 pl8787
     46 van51
     48 Andre Noll
     56 D. Lehmann
     57 Alesis Novik
     69 Kevin
     74 khalednasr
     77 tklein23
     82 Roman Votyakov
     83 puffin444
     85 Fabio De Bona
     96 Abhijeet
    116 Christian Widmer
    129 Parijat Mazumdar
    134 Baozeng Ding
    141 Jonas Behr
    149 Wu Lin
    165 Evgeniy Andreev
    177 lambday
    213 Thoralf Klein
    218 Chiyuan Zhang
    226 Shashwat Lal Das
    265 Gunnar Raetsch
    265 iglesias
    355 Fernando Iglesias
    560 Sebastian Henschel
    690 Viktor Gal
   1546 Sergey Lisitsyn
   2271 Heiko Strathmann
   4325 Soeren Sonnenburg