In this post, we’re going to unravel the mathematics behind a very famous, robust, and versatile machine learning algorithm: support vector machines. We’ll also gain insight on relevant terms like kernel tricks, support vectors, cost functions for SVM, etc.
A support vector machine (SVM) is a supervised machine learning algorithm that can be used for both classification and regression tasks. In SVM, we plot data points as points in an n-dimensional space (n being the number of features you have) with the value of each feature being the value of a particular coordinate.
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