New paper argues SVMs directly minimise KL divergence, offering probabilistic interpretation
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An arXiv paper (2611.05557) claims support vector machines, traditionally grounded in geometric margin maximisation, directly minimise KL divergence, providing a probabilistic interpretation the method has lacked.
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- 2026-11-05 05:00 · arXiv stat.ML
Support Vector Machines Directly Minimise KL Divergence