Introduction to Support Vector Machine
Get introduced to the support vector machine.
We'll cover the following
- Introduction to regression vs. classification
- Support vector machine
- How does the SVM classify?
- The maximum margin hyperplane
- Why maximize the margin?
- SVM origins: The perceptron algorithm
- Finding the maximum margin
- Hinge loss and non-linearly separable cases
- Hinge loss and slack
- C: The regularizing hyperparameter
We use a best-fitted line to predict a continuous target in regression-based algorithms like linear regression.
What if we try to use the linear regression algorithm to predict some classes (for example, 0/1)? That isn’t a good idea (we typically convert the categorical targets or labels to integer classes 0/1).
To accomplish a classification task, we consider the line as a boundary that splits the space instead of fitting the points.
Regression vs. classification
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