Talk:Support vector machine/Archives/2018

Citation needed within Applications section?

"[SVMs] have been used to classify proteins with up to 90% of the compounds classified correctly." I suggest this requires a citation. The nearest references that follow do not relate to this point. TiredOfLondon (talk) 13:21, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Unsourced claims

The statement "The support vector clustering algorithm [...] is one of the most widely used clustering algorithms in industrial applications." is too strong of a claim to be done without any kind of support from any source. As such, I added a "citation needed" tag.

Notice that this statement was introduced to replace a much much milder claim: it went from "[Support vector clustering] is used in industrial applications either when data are not labeled or when only some data are labeled as a preprocessing for a classification pass." (which seems reasonable, even without a reference), to the current (much stronger) claim that it is "one of the most widely used clustering algorithms in industrial applications".

Off the top of my head, I can think of much more popular clustering algorithms (that can be used with "industrial-sized" datasets): K-means clustering, K-medioids clustering, self-organizing maps, DBSCAN, OPTICS, etc.

Also, note that Wikipedia's article on "clustering methods" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis) does not mention "support vector clustering", not even once. This should give you an idea of how popular this method is.