What Is SVM?

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is an approach for classification which uses the concept of separating hyperplane. It was developed in the 1990s. It is a generalization of an intuitive and simple classifier called maximal margin classifier. In order to study Support Vector Machine (SVM), we first need to understand what is maximal margin classifier and support vector classifier. In maximal margin classifier, we use a hyperplane to separate the classes.