The Kernel Trick and Support Vector Machines

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The Kernel Trick and Support Vector Machines

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Picking up after last week's episode about maximal margin classifiers, this week we'll go into the kernel trick and how that (combined with maximal margin algorithms) gives us the much-vaunted support vector machine.

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Dec 11, 2017

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The Kernel Trick and Support Vector Machines

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