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What is the effect of outliers on SVM decision boundary?
Updated May 17, 2026
Short answer
Outliers can significantly influence SVM if C is large.
Deep explanation
Outliers may become support vectors and distort margin. Soft margin helps reduce their impact, but high C forces model to fit them, reducing generalization.
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