Support Vector Machines, Dual Formulation, Quadratic Programming & Sequential Minimal Optimization

The Support-vector Machine (or called Support-vector Networks initially by the author -- Vladimir Vapnik) takes a completely different approach to solving statistical problems (in specific Classification). This algorithm has been heavily used in several classification problems like Image Classification, Bag-of-Words Classifier, OCR, Cancer prediction, and many more. SVM is basically a binary classifier, although it can be modified for multi-class classification as well as regression. Unlike logistic regression and other neural network models, SVMs try to maximize the separation between two classes of points. A brilliant idea is used by the author.