svc预测概率_libsvm在预测结果作为概率估计时使用哪种方法

I'm using libsvm (executables provided in the package.) for a 2-class classification problem. In training step I'm setting b parameter as 1, which is defined as;

-b probability_estimates : whether to train a SVC or SVR model for

probability estimates, 0 or 1 (default 0)

and in predicting step I'm setting b parameter as 1 again, which is defined as;

-b probability_estimates: whether to predict probability estimates, 0 or 1 (default 0); for one-class SVM only 0 is supported

But based on the formulation of SVM, prediction results are signed distances to the margin. My question is, when trained SVM predicts results as probability estimates, how does it (libsvm) map the distances to probabilty estimates?

Thank you

解决方案

They use an improved version of Platt's method.

You can find here:

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/libsvm.pdf (Section 8, probability estimates)

and here is the description of the method:

http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/papers/plattprob.pdf