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Support Vector Machine

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A supervised learning model that finds the boundary between classes of data that leaves the widest possible margin to the nearest data points of each class, effective on data with many features relative to the number of examples.

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Origin Year
1964 1
Core Principle
A supervised max-margin model that separates classes with the widest margin. 1
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Corinna Cortes co-developed the soft-margin support vector machine with Vladimir Vapnik, published in their 1995 paper.

Vladimir Vapnik co-developed the soft-margin support vector machine with Corinna Cortes, published in their 1995 paper.

Sources
1. Support vector machine - Wikipedia
  • Section: History
    The original SVM algorithm was invented by Vladimir N. Vapnik and Alexey Ya. Chervonenkis in 1964.
  • Lead paragraph
    a support vector machine (SVM) or support vector network is a supervised max-margin model with associated learning algorithms that analyze data for classification and regression analysis.
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