##  [Support Vector Machine](/support-vector-machine) 

  ##  [Support Vector Machine](https://natural.quantumdictionary.io/support-vector-machine-0) 

  

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Definition

A supervised learning method that finds a decision boundary (hyperplane) separating classes by maximizing the margin between support vectors—the training points nearest the boundary—optionally mapping inputs into a higher-dimensional feature space via kernel functions to handle nonlinearity.