What is the purpose of the margin in a Support Vector Machine?

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What is the purpose of the margin in a Support Vector Machine?

Key points

  • The margin in SVM is crucial for maximizing the separation between classes
  • It is the distance between the decision boundary and the closest support vectors
  • Increasing the margin helps reduce overfitting and improve model performance
  • The margin plays a key role in determining the decision boundary's effectiveness

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