SVM Hyperparameters Explained with Visualizations

Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a widely-used supervised machine learning algorithm. It is mostly used in classification tasks but suitable for regression tasks as well. In this post, we dive deep into two important hyperparameters of SVMs, C and gamma, and explain their effects with visualizations. So I will assume you have a basic understanding of the algorithm and focus on these hyperparameters. SVM separates data points that belong to different classes with a decision boundary.