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rabit-learn/linear/Makefile

@@ -11,5 +11,3 @@ CFLAGS+=-fopenmp
 linear.o: linear.cc ../../src/*.h linear.h ../solver/*.h
 # dependenies here
 linear.rabit: linear.o lib
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rabit-learn/linear/README.md

@@ -2,3 +2,28 @@ Linear and Logistic Regression
 ====
 * input format: LibSVM
 * Example: [run-linear.sh](run-linear.sh)
+
+Parameters
+===
+All the parameters can be set by param=value
+
+#### Important Parameters
+* reg_L1 [default = 0]
+  - l1 regularization co-efficient
+* reg_L2 [default = 1]
+  - l2 regularization co-efficient
+* lbfgs_stop_tol [default = 1e-5]
+  - relative tolerance level of loss reduction with respect to initial loss
+* max_lbfgs_iter [default = 500]
+  - maximum number of lbfgs iterations
+
+### Optimization Related parameters
+* min_lbfgs_iter [default = 5]
+  - minimum number of lbfgs iterations
+* max_linesearch_iter [default = 100] 
+  - maximum number of iterations in linesearch
+* linesearch_c1 [default = 1e-4] 
+  - c1 co-efficient in backoff linesearch
+* linesarch_backoff [default = 0.5]
+  - backoff ratio in linesearch
+