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Dimensionality Reduction

Reducing the number of features while preserving important information. PCA, t-SNE, and UMAP are the main techniques, essential for visualization and fighting the curse of dimensionality. LDA is the supervised counterpart: it projects using class labels, where PCA ignores them.

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PCAt-SNEUMAPCurse of dimensionalityFeature compressionLDA (Linear Discriminant Analysis)

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