Support vector machine (SVM) plot for our implementation on the wine dataset shown below | Source: Image by the author.

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Support Vector Machine (SVM) Introduction — Machine Learning

An introduction to support vector machines (SVM) in machine learning, and their role in supervised ML with examples

Author(s): Sujan Shirol, Roberto Iriondo

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SVM stands for support vector machine, and although it can solve both classification and regression problems, it is mainly used for classification problems in machine learning (ML). SVM models help us classify new data points based on previously classified similar data, making it is a supervised machine learning technique. The companion resources to this article can be found either on Google Colab or Github.

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