Maximum-margin classifiers that find the hyperplane with the largest gap between classes. The kernel trick maps to infinite-dimensional feature spaces.
Learning Objectives
→Understand the maximum-margin objective
→Describe support vectors geometrically
→Apply the kernel trick conceptually
→Compare soft-margin vs. hard-margin SVM
Practice
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