The document summarizes support vector machines (SVM), a supervised machine learning method for classification and regression. It discusses that SVM finds the optimal separating hyperplane between two classes with maximum margin. It also covers modifications for non-linearly separable data and multiclass classification problems using one-vs-rest and one-vs-one approaches. An example applying SVM to classify iris data is provided. In summary, the document provides an overview of SVM including its goal of finding optimal decision boundaries, extensions for complex problems, and an illustrative example.