A Lagrangian support vector machine solves problems having massive data sets (e.g., millions of sample points) by defining an input matrix representing a set of data having an input space with a dimension of n that corresponds to a number of features associated with the data set, generating a support vector machine to solve a system of linear equations corresponding to the input matrix with the system of linear equations defined by a positive definite matrix, and calculating a separating surface with the support vector machine to divide the set of data into two subsets of data