Difference between revisions of "10-601 SVMS"
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** What a ''support vector'' is. | ** What a ''support vector'' is. | ||
** What a ''kernel function'' is. | ** What a ''kernel function'' is. | ||
| + | ** What ''slack variables'' are and why and when they are used in SVMs. | ||
| + | * How to explain the different parts (constraints, optimization criteria) of the primal and dual forms for the SVM. | ||
| + | * How the perceptron and SVM are similar and different. | ||
Revision as of 11:06, 18 September 2013
This a lecture used in the Syllabus for Machine Learning 10-601
Slides
Readings
Assignment
- None
What You Should Know Afterward
- The definitions of, and intuitions behind, these concepts:
- The margin of a classifier relative to a dataset.
- What a constrained optimization problem is.
- The primal form of the SVM optimization problem.
- The dual form of the SVM optimization problem.
- What a support vector is.
- What a kernel function is.
- What slack variables are and why and when they are used in SVMs.
- How to explain the different parts (constraints, optimization criteria) of the primal and dual forms for the SVM.
- How the perceptron and SVM are similar and different.
