The polynomial kernel has given us a good boundary line. But can we work with polynomial kernels all the time? Not in the following scenario:
The solution is a radial basis function or Gaussian kernel. It's nothing but the similarity function of the vectors to translate them into a high dimensional space or infinite dimensional space. Its value depends on the distance from the Gaussian kernel function, as follows:
K(x,x') = exp(-γ ||x-x'||2)
Without loss of generality, let :
With the help of this RBF as a similarity function, all the feature vectors get calculated.