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Machine Learning Algorithms

You're reading from  Machine Learning Algorithms

Product type Book
Published in Jul 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889622
Pages 360 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (22) Chapters close

Title Page
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Preface
1. A Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning 2. Important Elements in Machine Learning 3. Feature Selection and Feature Engineering 4. Linear Regression 5. Logistic Regression 6. Naive Bayes 7. Support Vector Machines 8. Decision Trees and Ensemble Learning 9. Clustering Fundamentals 10. Hierarchical Clustering 11. Introduction to Recommendation Systems 12. Introduction to Natural Language Processing 13. Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis in NLP 14. A Brief Introduction to Deep Learning and TensorFlow 15. Creating a Machine Learning Architecture

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed how a support vector machine works in both linear and non-linear scenarios, starting from the basic mathematical formulation. The main concept is to find the hyperplane that maximizes the distance between the classes by using a limited number of samples (called support vectors) that are closest to the separation margin.

We saw how to transform a non-linear problem using kernel functions, which allow remapping of the original space to a another high-dimensional one where the problem becomes linearly separable. We also saw how to control the number of support vectors and how to use SVMs for regression problems.

In the next chapter, we're going to introduce another classification method called decision trees, which is the last one explained in this book.

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