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SVM Classifier Implementation Guide

The document outlines an experiment focused on implementing a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier for classification tasks, particularly in predicting whether an animal is a dog or a cat based on height and weight. It explains the concept of hyperplanes and support vectors, provides sample code for training an SVM model using Python's sklearn library, and includes example predictions. Additionally, it lists viva questions related to SVM concepts such as geometric intuition, margin types, hinge loss, dual formulation, and the kernel trick.

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SVM Classifier Implementation Guide

The document outlines an experiment focused on implementing a Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier for classification tasks, particularly in predicting whether an animal is a dog or a cat based on height and weight. It explains the concept of hyperplanes and support vectors, provides sample code for training an SVM model using Python's sklearn library, and includes example predictions. Additionally, it lists viva questions related to SVM concepts such as geometric intuition, margin types, hinge loss, dual formulation, and the kernel trick.

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EXPERIMENT 7

Aim: Implementation of SVM Classifier

COURSE OUTCOMES

CO4 Evaluate machine learning model’s performance and apply learning strategy to
improve the performance of supervised and unsupervised learning model.

CO5 Develop a suitable model for supervised and unsupervised learning algorithm and
optimize the model on the expected accuracy.

Support Vector Machine Classifier


Support Vector Machine or SVM is one of the most popular Supervised Learning algorithms,
which is used for Classification as well as Regression problems. However, primarily, it is used
for Classification problems in Machine Learning.

The goal of the SVM algorithm is to create the best line or decision boundary that can segregate
n-dimensional space into classes so that we can easily put the new data point in the correct
category in the future. This best decision boundary is called a hyperplane.

SVM chooses the extreme points/vectors that help in creating the hyperplane. These extreme
cases are called as support vectors, and hence algorithm is termed as Support Vector Machine.
Consider the below diagram in which there are two different categories that are classified using a
decision boundary or hyperplane:
Program
from sklearn import svm
X = [[0, 0], [1, 1]]
y = [0, 1]
clf = svm.SVC()
clf.fit(X, y)

print(clf.predict([2,2]))

Animal Prediction Based on the data


We are to predict that whether the animal is Dog or Cat. Cat is 0 while Dog is 1
import pandas
from sklearn import svm

df = pandas.read_csv(‘D:\\3_Educational\\1_EngineeringSubjects\\Python for Machine


Learning\\L1 Machine Learning\\animals.csv’)
d = {'Cat': 0, 'Dog': 1}
df['Class'] = df['Class'].map(d)
features = ['Height', 'Weight']
X = df[features]
y = df['Class']
clf = svm.SVC()
clf.fit(X, y)

print(clf.predict([[48, 23]]))
print(clf.predict([[50, 27]]))
When the height was 48 and weight was 23 then output is 0  i.e. Cat
When the height was 50 and weight was 27 then output is 1  i.e. Dog

Viva Questions
1. What is the geometric intuition behind SVM?
2. What do know about Hard Margin SVM and Soft Margin SVM?
3. What is Hinge Loss?
4. Explain the Dual form of SVM formulation?
5. What's the “kernel trick” and how is it useful?

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