These functions operate in the feature space without ever computing the coordinates of the data in that space, but rather by simply computing the inner products between the mappings of all pairs of data in the feature space. This operation is often computationally cheaper than the explicit computation of the coordinates. Kernel functions have been introduced for sequence data, text, images, as well as vectors.

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