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Machine Learning For Dummies
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SVMs, a kind of algorithm used with Random Forests and Gradient Boosting Machines, are the creation of the mathematician Vladimir Vapnik and of some of his colleagues working at AT&T laboratories in the 1990s (such as Boser, Guyon, and Cortes). Even though many machine learning experts were initially skeptical of the algorithm because it didn’t resemble any other then-existing approach, SVMs quickly gained momentum and success thanks to their performance in many image-recognition problems, such as handwritten input, that were challenging the machine learning community of the time.
Today, SVMs see widespread use among data scientists, who apply it to an incredible array of problems, from medical diagnosis to image recognition and textual classification. The technique is somewhat limited in its applicability to big data because of a lack of scalability when examples and features are too numerous.
The mathematics are a bit complex, but the idea that started...
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