This document provides an overview of soft margin hyperplanes in support vector machines (SVMs). It discusses how soft margins allow for misclassified samples by introducing slack variables ξi that measure the degree of misclassification. The objective is to minimize the model complexity while maximizing the margin and allowing for some misclassification. This is achieved by minimizing ||w||2 + CΣξi, where C controls the trade-off between margin maximization and error minimization. Lagrange multipliers are used to solve the optimization problem to obtain the dual formulation and derive the soft margin SVM classifier. Hyperparameter tuning of C is also discussed to find an optimal value that gives good generalization performance.