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=== Support-vector machines ===
{{Main|Support-vector machine}}
Support-vector machines (SVMs), also known as support-vector networks, are a set of related [[supervised learning]] methods used for classification and regression. Given a set of training examples, each marked as belonging to one of two categories, an SVM training algorithm builds a model that predicts whether a new example falls into one category.<ref name="CorinnaCortes">{{Cite journal |last1=Cortes |first1=Corinna |author-link1=Corinna Cortes |last2=Vapnik |first2=Vladimir N. |year=1995 |title=Support-vector networks |journal=[[Machine Learning (journal)|Machine Learning]] |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=273–297 |doi=10.1007/BF00994018 |doi-access=free }}</ref> An SVM training algorithm is a non-[[probabilistic classification|probabilistic]], [[binary classifier|binary]], [[linear classifier]], although methods such as [[Platt scaling]] exist to use SVM in a probabilistic classification setting. In addition to performing linear classification, SVMs can efficiently perform a non-linear classification using what is called the [[kernel trick]], implicitly mapping their inputs into high-dimensional feature spaces.