Kernel and neighborhood methods · MLD-0597

Kernel

A similarity function that, when positive semidefinite, can represent inner products in a feature space.

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Original example

Use an RBF kernel for nonlinear classification.

Original caveat

Not every arbitrary similarity is a valid PSD kernel.

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Level: Intermediate. Stages: Theory · Training · Inference.

Tags: ML.

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