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Originally Posted by alasdairj
the original problem for hard-margin SVM seems like a "quadratic programming" problem - so my real question is this: why do we do the "dual" mapping to get the problem stated in terms of alpha? Is this purely to get it into a more convenient form for QP packages? I am missing something, but I don't know what :-).
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The number of variables in the original problem depends on the dimensionality of the weight space, whereas the number of variables in the dual problem does not. This makes a difference if that dimensionality is high, which is often the case in nonlinear transforms.