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M07.6 CONNECT THE MECHANISM

Choose a boundary with a margin

Many lines can separate handwritten 0s from 1s. Support vector machines pick the one with the most breathing room, and a kernel lets that line bend.

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Lesson overview

Many lines can separate handwritten 0s from 1s. Support vector machines pick the one with the most breathing room, and a kernel lets that line bend.

What you’ll explore

  • Support vector machines trade a wide margin against training errors; kernels measure similarity in a richer feature space without building it.
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Original explanations, connected to the research.

An Introduction to Statistical Learning — authors’ materialsCortes & Vapnik (1995), Support-vector networks
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