"In machine learning, support vector machines (SVMs, also support vector networks) are supervised learning models with associated learning algorithms that analyze data used for classification and regression analysis. Given a set of training examples, each marked as belonging to one or the other of two categories, an SVM training algorithm builds a model that assigns new examples to one category or the other, making it a **non-probabilistic binary linear classifier** (although methods such as Platt scaling exist to use SVM in a probabilistic classification setting). An SVM model is a representation of the examples as points in space, mapped ***so that the examples of the separate categories are divided by a clear gap that is as wide as possible***. New examples are then mapped into that same space and predicted to belong to a category based on which side of the gap they fall. This gap is also called maximum margin and the SVM classifier is called ***maximum margin clasifier***.\n",
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