Friday, January 26, 2007

Curse of Dimensionality

Curse of Dimensionality :

The exponential growth in the complexity of the problem that results from an increase in the number of dimensions
(for example, the dimension of input vector).

From the wikipedia:

The curse of dimensionality is a term coined by Richard Bellman to describe the problem caused by the exponential increase in volume associated with adding extra dimensions to a (mathematical) space.

The curse of dimensionality is a significant obstacle in machine learning problems that involve learning from few data samples in a high-dimensional feature space.

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