Linear decision boundaries

Linear Classifiers in Python

Michael (Mike) Gelbart

Instructor, The University of British Columbia

Linear decision boundaries

Linear Classifiers in Python

Definitions

Vocabulary:

  • classification: learning to predict categories
  • decision boundary: the surface separating different predicted classes
  • linear classifier: a classifier that learns linear decision boundaries
    • e.g., logistic regression, linear SVM
  • linearly separable: a data set can be perfectly explained by a linear classifier
Linear Classifiers in Python

Linearly separable data

Linear Classifiers in Python

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Linear Classifiers in Python

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