
General:
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This is a maltab package that implements the code described in 

   Max Margin classification of incomplete data.
   Gal Chechik, Geremy Heitz, Gal Elidan, Pieter Abbeel and Daphne Koller
   Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS, 2006,
   Journal of Machine Learning Research, JMLR, 9(Jan):1--21, 2008.
   See papers at: 
   http://robotics.stanford.edu/~gal/Papers/Chechik_NIPS2006_MaxMargin.pdf
   http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume9/chechik08a/chechik08a.pdf


License:
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Code is supplied free for academic use. Any other use, including
non-academic research, requires an explicit written permission from
the author, Gal Chechik.


Installation:
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The current code uses CPLEX to solve the QP.  To use another solver,
replace the call to svmtrain_cplex in classify_with_absent. 
To install CPLEX see http://www.ilog.com/products/cplex/


Usage: 
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An example is given in run_fill.
