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Support Vector Machines (SVM)

A classifier that finds the boundary with the widest possible margin between classes, and uses the kernel trick to draw curved boundaries by implicitly working in a higher-dimensional space. Pre-deep-learning state of the art, and still strong on small, clean datasets.

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MarginSupport vectorsKernel trickHyperplaneSoft margin

Where you meet it in the real world

Text classification with few examples, bioinformatics, image classification before CNNs took over

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