Support vector machines working principles
Support vector machines are mainly classified into three types based on their working principles:
- Maximum margin classifiers
- Support vector classifiers
- Support vector machines
Maximum margin classifier
People usually generalize support vector machines with maximum margin classifiers. However, there is much more to present in SVMs compared to maximum margin classifiers, which we will be covering in this chapter. It is feasible to draw infinite hyperplanes to classify the same set of data upon, but the million dollar question, is which one to consider as an ideal hyperplane? The maximum margin classifier provides an answer to that: the hyperplane with the maximum margin of separation width.
Hyperplanes: Before going forward, let us quickly review what a hyperplane is. In n-dimensional space, a hyperplane is a flat affine subspace of dimension n-1. This means, in 2-dimensional space, the hyperplane is a straight line which separates the 2-dimensional space...