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What is the purpose of Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
What is the purpose of Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
What is the goal of reducing the dimensionality of the data?
What is the goal of reducing the dimensionality of the data?
What is the result of applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to high-dimensional data?
What is the result of applying Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to high-dimensional data?
What is the advantage of using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in machine learning?
What is the advantage of using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in machine learning?
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What is the primary objective of dimensionality reduction techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
What is the primary objective of dimensionality reduction techniques like Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
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What is the role of the direction vector in Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
What is the role of the direction vector in Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
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What is the relationship between the original high-dimensional data and the lower-dimensional representation obtained through Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
What is the relationship between the original high-dimensional data and the lower-dimensional representation obtained through Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
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What is the assumption underlying Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
What is the assumption underlying Principal Component Analysis (PCA)?
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What is the purpose of reducing data from 2D to 1D using PCA?
What is the purpose of reducing data from 2D to 1D using PCA?
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What is the result of computing the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix in PCA?
What is the result of computing the eigenvectors of the covariance matrix in PCA?
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What is the purpose of feature scaling in PCA?
What is the purpose of feature scaling in PCA?
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How is the number of principal components chosen in PCA?
How is the number of principal components chosen in PCA?
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What is the purpose of reconstructing data from a compressed representation?
What is the purpose of reconstructing data from a compressed representation?
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What is the result of applying PCA to an unlabeled dataset?
What is the result of applying PCA to an unlabeled dataset?
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Why is it important to define the mapping from the original data to the compressed representation?
Why is it important to define the mapping from the original data to the compressed representation?
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What is the purpose of computing the average squared projection error?
What is the purpose of computing the average squared projection error?
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What is the result of applying PCA to a dataset?
What is the result of applying PCA to a dataset?
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Why is it important to only run PCA on the training set?
Why is it important to only run PCA on the training set?
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What is the primary goal of dimensionality reduction in machine learning?
What is the primary goal of dimensionality reduction in machine learning?
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What is the process of reducing data from 2D to 1D called?
What is the process of reducing data from 2D to 1D called?
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Who is the expert associated with dimensionality reduction and data compression?
Who is the expert associated with dimensionality reduction and data compression?
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What is the primary objective of reducing the dimensionality of a dataset?
What is the primary objective of reducing the dimensionality of a dataset?
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What is the term for the process of converting 3D data to 2D data?
What is the term for the process of converting 3D data to 2D data?
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What is the primary difference between PCA and linear regression?
What is the primary difference between PCA and linear regression?
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What is the primary goal of data visualization in machine learning?
What is the primary goal of data visualization in machine learning?
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What is the term for the measure of income inequality in a country?
What is the term for the measure of income inequality in a country?
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What is the purpose of feature scaling in data preprocessing?
What is the purpose of feature scaling in data preprocessing?
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What is the name of the algorithm that reduces the dimensionality of a dataset by finding the directions of maximum variance?
What is the name of the algorithm that reduces the dimensionality of a dataset by finding the directions of maximum variance?
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What is the unit of measurement for the GDP of a country?
What is the unit of measurement for the GDP of a country?
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What is the primary goal of data preprocessing in machine learning?
What is the primary goal of data preprocessing in machine learning?
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What is the term for the process of converting high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional representation?
What is the term for the process of converting high-dimensional data to a lower-dimensional representation?
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Why is it necessary to scale features that have different ranges of values?
Why is it necessary to scale features that have different ranges of values?
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What is one of the main benefits of using PCA in data compression?
What is one of the main benefits of using PCA in data compression?
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Why is using PCA to prevent overfitting a bad idea?
Why is using PCA to prevent overfitting a bad idea?
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What is the correct order of steps in designing an ML system?
What is the correct order of steps in designing an ML system?
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What should you do before implementing PCA?
What should you do before implementing PCA?
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What is the main advantage of using PCA for visualization?
What is the main advantage of using PCA for visualization?
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Why might PCA be used in some cases where it shouldn't be?
Why might PCA be used in some cases where it shouldn't be?
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What is the main disadvantage of using PCA to prevent overfitting?
What is the main disadvantage of using PCA to prevent overfitting?
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What is the recommended approach to addressing overfitting?
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Study Notes
Dimensionality Reduction and Moivation
- Dimensionality reduction is a machine learning technique that reduces the number of features or variables in a dataset.
- Motivation behind dimensionality reduction is to reduce the data from high-dimensional space to lower-dimensional space.
- Reduces the data from 2D to 1D, 3D to 2D, or n-dimensional to k-dimensional.
Data Compression
- Data compression is a technique used to reduce the data size, reducing the memory or disk space needed to store the data.
- Reduces the data from high-dimensional space to lower-dimensional space, making it easier to store and process.
Data Visualization
- Data visualization is a technique used to visualize the data in a lower-dimensional space, making it easier to understand and interpret.
- Reduces the data from high-dimensional space to 2D or 3D, making it easier to visualize.
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
- PCA is a dimensionality reduction technique used to reduce the data from high-dimensional space to lower-dimensional space.
- PCA is used to find the directions of maximum variance in the data, and project the data onto these directions.
- PCA is not linear regression.
- Steps in PCA:
- Compute the covariance matrix.
- Compute the eigenvectors of the matrix.
- Select the k eigenvectors corresponding to the k largest eigenvalues.
- Project the data onto the selected eigenvectors.
Algorithm for PCA
- A der mean normalization (ensure every feature has zero mean) and optionally feature scaling.
- Compute the covariance matrix: Σ = (1/n) * X' * X.
- Compute the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of Σ: [U, S, V] = svd(Σ).
- Select the k eigenvectors corresponding to the k largest eigenvalues: Ureduce = U(:, 1:k).
- Project the data onto the selected eigenvectors: z = Ureduce' * x.
Choosing the Number of Principal Components
- Average squared projection error: measures the error caused by projecting the data onto a lower-dimensional space.
- Total variation in the data: measures the total variation in the data.
- Typically, choose the number of principal components to retain 99% of the variance.
- Algorithm for choosing the number of principal components:
- Compute the eigenvectors and eigenvalues of Σ.
- Try PCA with different values of k.
- Compute the average squared projection error.
- Check if the error is acceptable.
Advice for Applying PCA
- Supervised learning speedup: use PCA to reduce the dimensionality of the data, making it faster to train a model.
- Extract inputs: extract the inputs from the unlabeled dataset.
- New training set: create a new training set by projecting the data onto the selected eigenvectors.
- Note: the mapping from the original data to the lower-dimensional space should be defined by running PCA only on the training set.
Applications of PCA
- Compression: reduces the memory or disk space needed to store the data.
- Visualization: reduces the data to a lower-dimensional space, making it easier to visualize.
- Supervised learning speedup: reduces the dimensionality of the data, making it faster to train a model.
Bad Use of PCA
- Using PCA to prevent overfitting: instead, use regularization.
- Do not use PCA to reduce the number of features, as it may not be the best way to address overfitting.
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Learn about dimensionality reduction and data compression methods in machine learning. This quiz covers techniques to reduce data from 2D to 1D and compress data effectively.
