SVM in Sklearn
Learn how to implement SVM in sklearn using the one-vs-all approach for multiclass classification.
Multiclass classification
SVMs are often used for binary classification, where the goal is to separate data into two classes. However, SVMs can also be used for multiclass classification, where the goal is to separate data into more than two classes.
The above illustration shows the multiclass classification of the Iris dataset using SVM.
One-vs-all
Multiclass SVM is an extension of binary SVM, where the SVM is trained to classify data into more than two classes. There are several approaches to training a multiclass SVM, but the most common approach is to use the one-vs-all (OVA) method. In the OVA method, a separate binary SVM is trained for each class, with the data of that class as the positive class and the data of all other classes as the negative class. The SVM with the highest output score is chosen as the predicted class during testing.
Note: Both the hard-margin and soft-margin SVM algorithms perform poorly for multiclass ...