Why do I receive an "out of memory" error when I execute the function SVMTRAIN in the Bioinformatics Toolbox 2.0.1 (R14SP2)?

I have a variable "group" of size (10001,1) and a variable "training" of size(10001,2)

I use the above two variables as input arguments for the SVMTRAIN command.

svmstruct = svmtrain(training,group);

I receive the following error message:

ERROR: ??? Error using ==> svmtrain
Error calculating the kernel function:
Out of memory. Type HELP MEMORY for your options.

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

If the SVMTRAIN function has to operate on a data set containing N elements, it creates a (N+1) by (N+1) matrix to find the separating hyperplane. Therefore the function will need at least 8*(n+1)^2 bytes of contiguous memory. In absence of that size of contiguous memory location, MATLAB generates an "out of memory" error message.

Type the following in the Command Window to find the largest block of contiguous memory available:

feature memstats

You can get more information about memory management at the following link:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/performance-and-memory.html