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-rw-r--r--gensvm/core.py7
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index bf3c120..44c47a7 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -73,8 +73,8 @@ from Scikit-Learn as follows:
>>> scaler = MaxAbsScaler().fit(X_train)
>>> X_train, X_test = scaler.transform(X_train), scaler.transform(X_test)
-Note that we scale the data using the `maxabs_scale
-<http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.preprocessing.maxabs_scale.html>`_
+Note that we scale the data using the `MaxAbsScaler
+<http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.preprocessing.MaxAbsScaler.html>`_
function. This scales the columns of the data matrix to ``[-1, 1]`` without
breaking sparsity. Scaling the dataset can have a significant effect on the
computation time of GenSVM and is `generally recommended for SVMs
diff --git a/gensvm/core.py b/gensvm/core.py
index dab2368..c994995 100644
--- a/gensvm/core.py
+++ b/gensvm/core.py
@@ -76,13 +76,16 @@ def _fit_gensvm(
if status_ == 1 and verbose > 0:
warnings.warn(
"GenSVM optimization prematurely ended due to a "
- "incorrect step in the optimization algorithm.",
+ "incorrect step in the optimization algorithm. "
+ "This can be due to data quality issues, hyperparameter "
+ "settings, or numerical precision errors.",
FitFailedWarning,
)
if status_ == 2 and verbose > 0:
warnings.warn(
- "GenSVM failed to converge, increase " "the number of iterations.",
+ "GenSVM failed to converge, you may want to increase "
+ "the number of iterations.",
ConvergenceWarning,
)