Support Vector Machines Tutorial – Stats and Bots

If you have used machine learning to perform classification, you might have heard about Support Vector Machines (SVM). Introduced a little more than 50 years ago, they have evolved over time and have also been adapted to various other problems like regression, outlier analysis, and ranking. SVMs are a favorite tool in the arsenal of many machine learning practitioners. At [24]7, we too use them to solve a variety of problems. In this post, we will try to gain a high-level understanding of how SVMs work.