Python Data Science Essentials - Second Edition

Nonlinear algorithms

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a powerful and advanced supervised learning technique for classification and regression that can automatically fit linear and nonlinear models.

SVM algorithms have quite a few advantages over other machine learning algorithms:

• They can handle the majority of supervised problems such as regression, classification, and anomaly detection (anyway, they are actually best at binary classification).
• Provide a good handling of noisy data and outliers. They tend to overfit less since they only work with some particular examples, the support vectors.
• Work fine with datasets presenting more features than examples, though, as other machine learning algorithms, also SVM would gain both from dimensionality reduction ...