Support Vector Machines
Also known as SVM
Overview
Support vector machines (SVMs) find decision boundaries that separate classes with a wide margin; kernels such as the Gaussian RBF and polynomial kernel extend them to nonlinear patterns. Related methods include support vector regression for continuous outcomes and one-class SVMs for anomaly detection, while robust losses, sparsity penalties, and twin or proximal formulations address noise and feature selection. Research also develops faster training and model selection through optimization methods, GPU computation, and low-rank approximations such as Nyström, and tests SVMs in settings from medical imaging to remote sensing. A central tension is that SVMs remain strong on many structured and tabular tasks, but performance depends heavily on kernel and preprocessing choices, while scalability, high-dimensional generalization, and reliable interpretation remain challenges.
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