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Kernel methods are used in machine learning to generalize linear techniques to nonlinear situations, especially SVMs, PCA, and GPs. Not to be confused with [kernel-smoothing], for kernel density estimation (KDE) and kernel regression.

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What are kernels in support vector machine?

We define kernels as real-valued functions $\kappa(x,x')\in\mathbb{R}$ where $x,x'\in\mathbb{R}^n$. Typically, $\kappa(x,x')\geq 0$ $\kappa(x,x')=\kappa(x',x)$ So a kernel can be interpreted as a …
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