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title: "What is Support Vector Machine (SVM)?"  
description: "What is Support Vector Machine (SVM)?"  
author: "Anubhav Sharma"  
published: 2026-03-05  
updated: 2026-04-27  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162045/what-is-support-vector-machine-svm  
category: "artificial intelligence"  
tags: ["artificial intelligence"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is Support Vector Machine (SVM)?

**What is [Support](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/286/modi-support-for-sportsperson) [Vector Machine](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/116384/svm-support-vector-machine-kya-hai) ([SVM](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/157518/what-is-svm-algorithm-and-also-explain-it-in-detail))?**

## Replies

### Reply by Anubhav Sharma

**Support [Vector](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33499/vector-vs-arraylist-which-has-better-performance-and-why) Machine (SVM)** is a supervised machine learning algorithm used for **classification and regression**.

**In short:**\
It finds the **best boundary (hyperplane)** that separates data into different classes with the **maximum margin** (distance between classes).

**Key idea:**\
Only a few critical data points—called **support vectors**—decide the boundary.

**Example:**\
Separating spam vs non-spam emails.


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