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PCA for Dimensionality Reduction

PCA is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of data by transforming it into a new feature space with fewer dimensions while retaining as much information as possible. It works by finding the principal components or directions of maximum variance in the data and keeping only the components that contribute most to the explanation of the variance in the data, allowing dimensionality reduction. PCA seeks orthogonal linear combinations of features that show the greatest variance and can help reveal the underlying structure of a dataset.

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PCA for Dimensionality Reduction

PCA is a technique that reduces the dimensionality of data by transforming it into a new feature space with fewer dimensions while retaining as much information as possible. It works by finding the principal components or directions of maximum variance in the data and keeping only the components that contribute most to the explanation of the variance in the data, allowing dimensionality reduction. PCA seeks orthogonal linear combinations of features that show the greatest variance and can help reveal the underlying structure of a dataset.

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Principal Component Analysis (PCA)

Naman Kasliwal Date: 6/2/2018


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Introduction:
 Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a useful technique for dimensionality reduction
 It is optimal to represent the variability of the training data with as few dimensions as
possible
 PCA helps find the combinations of variables that explain the most variance
 PCA seeks orthogonal linear combinations of the features which show the greatest variance,
and as such, can help give you a good idea of the structure of the data set
 Linear dimensionality reduction uses approximated Singular Value Decomposition of the
data and keeps only the most significant singular vectors to project the data to a lower
dimensional space

Input Images:

Result of applying PCA:


The mean image (top left) and the first seven modes; that is, the directions with most variation.

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