Verbose log abbriviations meaning in SVC, scikit-learn

Question

I am looking for the meaning of verbose log abbriviations of SVC function in scikit-learn?

If nSV is the number of support vectors, #iter is the number of iteration, what dose nBSV, rho,obj mean?

This is an example:

import numpy as np
from sklearn.svm import SVR
sets=np.loadtxt('data\Exp Rot.txt')         # reading data
model=SVR(kernel='rbf',C=100,gamma=1,max_iter=100000,verbose=True)
model.fit(sets[:,:2],sets[:,2])
print(model.score)

and here is the result

Answer 1

scikit-learn is using libsvm's implementation of support-vector machines (LinearSVC will use liblinear by the same authors). The official website has it's own FAQ answering this here.

Excerpt:

Q: The output of training C-SVM is like the following. What do they mean?

optimization finished, #iter = 219

nu = 0.431030

obj = -100.877286, rho = 0.424632

nSV = 132, nBSV = 107

Total nSV = 132

obj is the optimal objective value of the dual SVM problem

rho is the bias term in the decision function sgn(w^Tx - rho)

nSV and nBSV are number of support vectors and bounded support vectors (i.e., alpha_i = C)

nu-svm is a somewhat equivalent form of C-SVM where C is replaced by nu

nu simply shows the corresponding parameter. More details are in libsvm document

Link to the libsvm document mentioned above (PDF!)