Saran Ahluwalia

Saran Ahluwalia

My primary interests are in applying statistical learning, graphical models and unsupervised machine learning in service of - amongst others - healthcare services, quantitative finance and real estate economics. I hope to continue to marry my prior experience with my passion for the democratization of knowledge through open source development

Derivation of Support Vector Machines

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Recently, I am experimenting with different mechanisms for deriving decision functions for multiclass classification problems. I have spent some time reading and experiementing with examples from the following references:

  1. Marti A. Hearst. 1998. Support Vector Machines. IEEE Intelligent Systems 13, 4 (July 1998), 18–28. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/5254.708428
  2. James, Gareth & Witten, Daniela & Hastie, Trevor & Tibshirani, Robert. (2013). An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R.

In light of this, I have contrived a few illustrative examples and derivations in thiw writeup:

SVM Derivation

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