R caret unusually slow when tuning SVM with linear kernel
问题 I have observed a very strange behavior when tuning SVM parameters with caret . When training a single model without tuning, SVM with radial basis kernel takes more time than SVM with linear kernel, which is expected. However, when tuning SVM with both kernels over the same penalty grid, SVM with linear kernel takes substantially more time than SVM with radial basis kernel. This behavior can be easily reproduced in both Windows and Linux with R 3.2 and caret 6.0-47. Does anyone know why