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Why does SVM not scale well with extremely large datasets?

Updated May 17, 2026

Short answer

SVM struggles with scalability due to quadratic kernel matrix computation.

Deep explanation

Kernel SVM requires computing pairwise similarities between all training points, resulting in O(n²) memory and O(n³) time complexity in worst cases. This becomes impractical for large-scale datasets.

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