How SVM constructs boundaries? Math explained.

Christopher Chung
Analytics Vidhya
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6 min readApr 22, 2021

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Mathematical concepts behind how SVM can separate data points in high dimensional space

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Support vector machines were first introduced by Vladmir Vapnik and his colleagues at Bell Labs in 1992. However, many are not aware that basics of support vector machines were already developed in 1960s with his PhD thesis at Moscow University. Over decades, SVM has been highly preferred by many…

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Christopher Chung
Analytics Vidhya

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