Chih-Wei Hsu, Chih-Chung Chang, and Chih-Jen Lin. A Practical Guide to Support Vector Classifcation

Taiwan: Department of Computer Science, National Taiwan University, 2010. — 16 p.The support vector machine (SVM) is a popular classi cation technique. However, beginners who are not familiar with SVM often get unsatisfactory results since they miss some easy but signifcant steps. In this guide, a simple procedure which usually gives reasonable results is proposed.