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Machine Learning and AI for Absolute Beginners
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Machine Learning and AI for Absolute Beginners

by Oliver Theobald
August 2025
Beginner
236 pages
7h 51m
English
Packt Publishing
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SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES

 

Developed inside the computer science community in the 1990s, support vector machines (SVM) was initially designed for predicting numeric and categorical outcomes as a double-barrel prediction technique. Today, though, SVM is mostly used as a classification technique for predicting categorical outcomes.

As a classification technique, SVM is similar to logistic regression, in that it’s used to filter data into a binary or multiclass target variable. But, as seen in Figure 41, SVM sets a different emphasis on the location of the classification boundary line.

 

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Figure 41: Logistic regression versus SVM

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