Blogging the machine ... the machine learning course CS401 NUIM Computer Science Fall 2010, that is.
2010-10-08
Max vs Min
Oops! In the lecture of 5-Oct-2010 on finding the maximum margin hyperplane, I wrote max ||w||2where I should have written min||w||2. (Thanks to Thomas Whelan for spotting it.)
I found this paper at the bottom of the wiki article which is quite good at explaining things;
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tristanfletcher.co.uk/SVM%20Explained.pdf
Also I found an app on vector dot products that helped me understand the relationship between w and x a lot more;
http://xahlee.org/SpecialPlaneCurves_dir/ggb/Vector_Dot_Product.html