Talk:Support vector machine/Archives/2020

Requested move 13 May 2020

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The result of the move request was: Speedy moved as reversion of a controversial move away from the status quo per WP:BRD. Anyone who disagrees may immediately start a new RM in the opposite direction. King of ♥ ♦ ♣ ♠ 03:57, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

Support-vector machine → Support vector machine – This page was originally located at the name without the hyphen. I think it should be moved back, as non-hyphenated version of the name is more common today and most of the references in the article use the non-hyphenated version. TPAnderson (talk) 14:59, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * Support as per norms. ~Amkgp ✉  17:50, 13 May 2020 (UTC)


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No actual definition
This page doesn't seem to ever actually define what a Support Vector Machine actually is. In a section titled "Definition", I expect to see pseudocode, mathematical formulae, or at the very least a sentence that begins "A Support Vector Machine is...". Instead the section seems to just contain further informal discussion. All I get from this article is that SVMs are linear classifiers and that they have something to do with large margin separation.

Is it not possible to come up with an actual definition of the term? For example, is any algorithm which, given two linearly separable finite sets, returns a maximum-margin separating hyperplane for them a Support Vector Machine? Or is there more to it than that? 80.111.252.15 (talk) 13:43, 3 December 2020 (UTC)