Question 1

Why does hinge loss encourage a margin?

Accepted Answer

Students can: explain hard vs soft margin, understand hinge loss and margin, train LinearSVC/SVC in sklearn, reason about scaling, C, kernels, and failure modes.

Question 2

What happens when a point is correctly classified but inside the margin?

Accepted Answer

Students can: explain hard vs soft margin, understand hinge loss and margin, train LinearSVC/SVC in sklearn, reason about scaling, C, kernels, and failure modes.

Support Vector Machines (Interview Level)