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I don't really understand if SVM are classification methods (like Logistic regression) or clustering methods.

Since it's used for supervised learning, it should be part of classification methods right ?

Or can SVM also be used for unsupervised learning, and would then also be part of clusering methods ?

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SVM are one of the most widely known classifiers.

There also exists SVR, Support Vector Regression.

As SVMs require training and hyperparaneter optimization they are only suited for supervised learning, and cannot be used for hard problems such as clustering.

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  • $\begingroup$ What about support vector clustering? $\endgroup$
    – SmallChess
    Mar 17, 2017 at 9:16
  • $\begingroup$ I'm not aware of anybody using it on real data. It's very expensive (so it won't work on larger data) and you need excessive number of runs, need to magically choose hyperparameters etc. - I fear that the reported results are essentially due to overfitting. $\endgroup$
    – Has QUIT--Anony-Mousse
    Mar 18, 2017 at 19:49
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SVM are one of the most widely used "classifiers". however you can also do regression tasks but that is called support vector regression.it is better to call them "kernel based methods". there is a very little work done in unsupervised domain in svms (one class svms).

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