10-601 SVMs and Margin Classifiers 1

This a lecture used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601 in Fall 2014

Slides

• Slides in pdf.
• SVM demo.

What You Should Know Afterward

• Max margin principle
• What SVM optimizes
• Linearly separable problems
• Non linearly separable problems and how to revise SVM to handle them