A Top Machine Learning Algorithm Explained: Support Vector Machines (SVM) - KDnuggets

By Clare Liu, Data Scientist at fintech industry, based in HK. One of the most prevailing and exciting supervised learning models with associated learning algorithms that analyse data and recognise patterns is Support Vector Machines (SVMs). It is used for solving both regression and classification problems. However, it is mostly used in solving classification problems. SVMs were first introduced by B.E. Boser et al. in 1992 and has become popular due to success in handwritten digit recognition in 1994.