> The Spider
> The spider is intended to be a complete object orientated environment for machine learning in Matlab. Aside from easy use of base learning algorithms, algorithms can be plugged together and can be compared with, e.g model selection, statistical tests and visual plots. This gives all the power of objects (reusability, plug together, share code) but also all the power of Matlab for machine learning research.

> July 7, 2004 | Version 1.5 of The Spider for MATLAB

> This is the fifth release of the spider machine learning library. Download it here . It runs with MATLAB® (Version 12 or greater) using either Linux or Windows. After downloading, unzip it into the directory of choice, start Matlab and run the script "use_spider" to install. To get started type "help spider" and "help demos", and read the other sections of this site. The Spider is released under a GNU General Public License . Click here to see the changes since version 1.4. For support: please email both jaseweston@hotmail.com, gb@tuebingen.mpg.de.

> November 29, 2003 | Version 1.4 of The Spider for MATLAB

> This is the fourth release of the spider machine learning library. Download it here . Click here to see the changes since version 1.3.

> September 10, 2003 | Version 1.3 of The Spider for MATLAB

> This is the third release of the spider machine learning library. Download it here . Only small changes since V1.2: more problems with libsvm and with gridsel fixed.

> July 16, 2003 | Version 1.2 of The Spider for MATLAB

> This is the second release of the spider machine learning library. Download it here . Click here to see the changes from Version 1.1.

> June 17, 2003 | Script to fix naming conflicts

> The spider library uses common names for its objects: knn, svm, etc.. which are also used by other libraries (e.g. NetLab). This makes it difficult to install spider objects along with other available libraries without name conflicts. To fix this problem, Rodrigo Fernandez (rodrigoandres.fernandezm@tin.it) has written two scripts in python that add to all spider objects the prefix 'sp_'. Click here to download.

> February 17, 2003 | Version 1.1 of The Spider for MATLAB

> This is the first release of the spider machine learning library. Download it here . After downloading, unzip it into the directory of choice, start Matlab and run the script "spider_init" to install. To get started type "help spider" and "help demos", and read the other sections of this site. The Spider is released under a GNU General Public License .