Machine Learning & AI

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SVM Margin

Width of the separating margin an SVM maximizes between classes.

Formula

M = \dfrac{2}{\lVert \mathbf{w}\rVert}

Variables

\mathbf{w}Weight vector

Example

Smaller ||w|| means a wider margin

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SVMs find the single hyperplane that maximizes the gap to the nearest points of each class.

svm margin classification

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