Category: Support Vector Machine
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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 16: Kernel Trick in Excel
The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 16: Kernel Trick in Excel Kernel SVM often feels abstract, with kernels, dual formulations, and support vectors. In this article, we take a different path. Starting from Kernel Density Estimation, we build Kernel SVM step by step as a sum of local bells, weighted and selected by hinge loss,…
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The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 15: SVM in Excel
The Machine Learning “Advent Calendar” Day 15: SVM in Excel Instead of starting with margins and geometry, this article builds the Support Vector Machine step by step from familiar models. By changing the loss function and reusing regularization, SVM appears naturally as a linear classifier trained by optimization. This perspective unifies logistic regression, SVM, and…