Description

A Flexible
Implementation for
Support Vector
Machines

Support vector machines (SVMs) are learning algorithms that have many
applications in pattern recognition and nonlinear regression. Being very
popular, SVM software is available in many versions. Still, existing imple-
mentations, usually in low-level languages such as C, are often difficult to
understand and adapt to specific research tasks. In this article, we present
a compact and yet flexible implementation of SVMs in Mathematica,
traditionally named MathSVM. This software is designed to be easy to
extend and modify, drawing on the powerful high-level language of
Mathematica.