Can an svmlight model be converted to work with libsvm?

Question

I have a model file that was created using svmlight in classification mode with a linear kernel. Is it possible to convert this file so that libsvm can use it for classifying?

Answer 1

You will have to retrain it. For the training file, in the svmlight / libsvm format, each line takes the form (source) :

<label> <feature-id>:<feature-value> <feature-id>:<feature-value> ....