Welcome to the 25th part of our machine learning tutorial series and the next part in our Support Vector Machine section. In this tutorial, we're going to begin setting up or own SVM from scratch.

Before we dive in, however, I will draw your attention to a few other options for solving this constraint optimization problem:

First, the topic of constraint optimization is massive, and there is quite a bit of material on the subject. Even just our subsection: Convex Optimization, is massive. A starting place might be: web.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook/bv_cvxbook.pdf. For a starting place for constraint optimization in general, you could also check out www.mit.edu/~dimitrib/Constrained-Opt.pdf

Within the realm of Python specifically, the CVXOPT package has various convex optimization methods available, one of which is the quadratic programming problem we have (found @ cvxopt.solvers.qp).

Also, even more specifically there is libsvm's Python interface, or the libsvm package in general. We are opting to not make use of any of these, as the optimization problem for the Support Vector Machine IS basically the entire SVM problem.

Now, to begin our SVM in Python.

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1. Introduction to Machine Learning
2. Regression Intro
3. Regression Features and Labels
4. Regression Training and Testing
5. Regression forecasting and predicting
6. Pickling and Scaling
7. Regression How it Works
8. How to program the Best Fit Slope
9. How to program the Best Fit Line
10. R Squared Theory
11. Programming R Squared
12. Testing Assumptions
13. Classification w/ K Nearest Neighbors Intro
14. K Nearest Neighbors Application
15. Euclidean Distance
16. Creating Our K Nearest Neighbors A
17. Writing our own K Nearest Neighbors in Code
18. Applying our K Nearest Neighbors Algorithm
19. Final thoughts on K Nearest Neighbors
20. Support Vector Machine Intro and Application
21. Understanding Vectors
22. Support Vector Assertion
23. Support Vector Machine Fundamentals
24. Support Vector Machine Optimization
25. Creating an SVM from scratch
26. SVM Training
27. SVM Optimization
28. Completing SVM from Scratch
29. Kernels Introduction
30. Why Kernels
31. Soft Margin SVM
32. Soft Margin SVM and Kernels with CVXOPT
33. SVM Parameters
34. Clustering Introduction
35. Handling Non-Numeric Data
36. K Means with Titanic Dataset
37. Custom K Means
38. K Means from Scratch
39. Mean Shift Intro
40. Mean Shift with Titanic Dataset
41. Mean Shift from Scratch
42. Mean Shift Dynamic Bandwidth

The objective of this course is to give you a holistic understanding of machine learning, covering theory, application, and inner workings of supervised, unsupervised, and deep learning algorithms.

In this series, we'll be covering linear regression, K Nearest Neighbors, Support Vector Machines (SVM), flat clustering, hierarchical clustering, and neural networks.