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  24,
2006
Version 1.71 - of the Spider for Matlab

A small update in the number -- a major update in the package!  A new release of the spider machine learning library now with a WEKA interface. Download it here . It runs with MATLAB® (Version 13 or greater) using either Linux or Windows. For the optional WEKA support you need  the JAVA capability of Matlab. 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 svm", and read the other sections of this site. The Spider and WEKA is released under a GNU General Public License.
Click here to see the changes since version 1.7.  For support: please email g.h.bakir@gmail.com.

July  3,
2006
Version 1.7 - of the Spider for Matlab

This is the seventh release of The Spider. Download it here .  Click here to see the changes since version 1.6.

January 26,
2005
Version 1.6 - of the Spider for Matlab

This is the sixth release of the spider machine learning library. Download it here . Click here to see the changes since version 1.5. 

September 15,
2004
Version 1.51 - fixes to deal with change in Matlab R14

This is a quick update to try to fix problems running with the new version of Matlab, R14. Download it here . If you find any more problems with R14, please email both jaseweston@hotmail.com, gb@tuebingen.mpg.de.

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 . Click here to see the changes since version 1.4.

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 .