Soft-margin Clasffier

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Seonglae Cho
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2023 Apr 18 2:17
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2025 Mar 24 17:11
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Normal version is Hard-margin SVM

The hyperparameter C controls the effect of slack variables, which allows the classifier to handle:
  • Outliers and misclassified data points
  • Non-linearly separable datasets
The key difference in optimization compared to hard-margin SVM is that the Lagrange multipliers α are bounded:
 
 
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