SVM Code

Most SVM software packages (including svmTrain.m) automatically add the extra featurex0 = 1 for you and automatically take care of learning the intercept term ✓0. So when passing your training data to the SVM software, there is no need to add this extra feature x0 = 1 yourself. In particular, in Octave/MATLAB your code should be working with training examples x2Rn (rather than x2Rn+1);
If you are training an SVM on a real problem, especially if you need to scale to a larger dataset, we strongly recommend instead using a highly optimized SVM toolbox such as LIBSVM.

function sim = gaussianKernel(x1, x2, sigma)
% Ensure that x1 and x2 are column vectors
x1 = x1(:); x2 = x2(:);
sim =