SVMs - An overview of Support Vector Machines

Sun, 26 Feb 2017 18:44:28 +0000

Today we are going to talk about SVMs in general.

I recently received an email from a reader of my serie of articles about the math behind SVM:

I felt I got deviated a lot on Math part and its derivations and assumptions and finally got confused what exactly SVM is ? And when to use it and how it helps ?

Here is my attempt to clarify things.

What exactly is SVM ?

SVM is a supervised learning model

It means you need a dataset which has been labeled.

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SVMs - An overview of Support Vector Machines

What exactly is SVM ?

SVM is a supervised learning model