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The document discusses support vector machines (SVMs), including definitions of key terms like support vectors, the hyperplane, and margin. It also provides sample questions and answers about SVM classification and parameters.

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SVM Questions

The document discusses support vector machines (SVMs), including definitions of key terms like support vectors, the hyperplane, and margin. It also provides sample questions and answers about SVM classification and parameters.

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SVM

Questions:
What is the support vector ?
Support vectors are the data points that lie closest to the
decision surface (or hyperplane)
What is the Hyperplane ?
hyperplane is a decision boundary that differentiates the two
classes in SVM.
What is the Margin?
it is the distance between the hyperplane and the observations
closest to the hyperplane
What are support vector machines (SVMs)?
support vector machine is a supervised learning algorithm
used to solve classification and regression problems.
How support vector machines work ?
classifies data by finding an optimal line or hyperplane that
maximizes the distance between each class (Margin)

MCQ:
Q1. How can SVM be classified?

A)It is a model trained using supervised learning. It


can be used for classification and not for
regression.
B) It is a model trained using unsupervised learning.
It can be used for classification but not for
regression.
C) It is a model trained using supervised learning. It
can be used for classification and regression.
D)It is a model trained using unsupervised learning.
It can be used for classification and regression.

Solution: C

Q2. A Support Vector Machine (SVM) is a


discriminative classifier defined by a separating
hyperplane.
A) True
B) False

Solution: A

Q3. Support vector machines cannot be used for


regression.
A) False
B) True

Solution: A
Q4. Which of the following statements is not true
about SVM?
A) It has regularization capabilities
B) It handles non-linear data efficiently
C) It has much improved stability
D) Choosing an appropriate kernel function is easy

Solution: D

Q5. The optimal classifier (Hyperplane ) is the one with


the largest margin.
A) True
B) False

Solution: A

Q6. The goal of a support vector machine is to find


the optimal separating hyperplane which minimizes
the margin of the training data.
A) False
B) True

Solution: A
Q7. Which of the following statements is not true
about hyperplane in SVM?
A) If a hyperplane is very close to a data point, its
margin will be small
B) If an hyperplane is far from a data point, its
margin will be large
B) Optimal hyperplane will be the one with the
biggest margin
D) If we select a hyperplane which is close to the data
points of one class, then it generalize well

Solution: D

Q8. If you remove the following, anyone red points


from the data. Will the decision boundary (Hyperplane)

change?
A) Yes
B) No

Solution: A

Explanation: These three examples are positioned such that

removing any one of them introduces slack in the constraints.

So the decision boundary would completely change.

Q9. [True or False] If you remove the non-red circled


points from the data, the decision boundary
(Hyperplane)

will change?

A) True
B) False
Solution: B

Explanation: On the other hand, the rest of the points in the data won’t

affect the decision boundary much.

Q10. Support vectors are the data points that lie


closest to the decision surface (Hyperplane).

A) TRUE
B) FALSE

Solution: A

Q11. Form of equation defining the decision surface


(Hyperplane)

A) ax+b=0

B) wx+b=0

C) wx+b=+1

D) wx+b=-1

Solution: B

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