In this course, you will explore support-vector machines and use them to find a maximum margin classifier. You will then construct a mental model for how loss functions and regularizers are used to minimize risk and improve generalization of a learning model. Through the use of feature expansion, you will extend the capabilities of linear classifiers to find non-linear classification boundaries. Finally, you will employ kernel machines to train algorithms that can learn in infinite dimensional feature spaces.

These courses are required to be completed prior to starting this course:

• Problem-Solving with Machine Learning
• Estimating Probability Distributions
• Learning with Linear Classifiers
• Decision Trees and Model Selection
• Debugging and Improving Machine Learning Models