SVMrank Support Vector Machine for Ranking Author: Thorsten Joachims <thorsten@joachims.org> Cornell University Department of Computer Science Version: 1.00 Date: 21.03.2009 Overview SVMrank is an instance of SVMstruct for efficiently training Ranking SVMs as defined in [Joachims, 2002c]. SVMrank solves the same optimization problem as SVMlight with the '-z p' option, but it is much faster. On the