Why Is the Curse of Dimensionality Important in Machine Learning

Learn the surprising effects that occur in high-dimensional space

Rukshan Pramoditha
4 min readMay 27, 2024

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In machine learning, the number of features (variables) in a dataset is called the dimensionality of data.

When the number of features increases (this is very common in real-world datasets), the feature space becomes…

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Rukshan Pramoditha

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