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Feature Selection
Choosing the most relevant features from available data to reduce dimensionality and improve model performance.
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- Dataset ✓ understood
A collection of data examples used for training, validating, or testing machine learning models.
- Feature ✓ understood
A single measurable property of an example, such as a house's floor area or how many links an email contains, used as an input to a model.
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Foundations Feature Engineering The process of selecting, transforming, and creating input features to improve model performance. Foundations Dimensionality Reduction Techniques to reduce the number of input features while preserving important information (PCA, t-SNE, autoencoders). Foundations Feature Importance Measures indicating which features contribute most to model predictions, useful for interpretation and selection. Foundations Curse of Dimensionality Phenomena where algorithms become inefficient as dimensionality increases, including data sparsity and distance concentration. Training L1 Regularization Adding the sum of absolute weights to the loss function, promoting sparsity and feature selection.