The Machine Learning Abstracts: Support Vector Machines

Last post, we discussed a type of classification algorithm, Decision Trees. There is another machine learning algorithm which can be used for classification, Support Vector Machines (SVM). Just like any classification algorithm, support vector machines learn to classify or divide any given data point into multiple classes. The key to understanding SVMs is to study how it does that. Each data point when plotted visually, can be represented as a vector from the origin.