Abstract
The curse of dimensionality is a well known but not entirely wellunderstood phenomena. Too much data, in terms of the number of input variables, is not always a good thing. This is especially true when the problem involves unsupervised learning or supervised learning with unbalanced data (many negative observations but minimal positive observations). This paper addresses two issues involving high dimensional data: The first issue explores the behavior of kernels in high dimensional data. It is shown that variance, especially when contributed by meaningless noisy variables, confounds learning methods. The second part of this paper illustrates methods to overcome dimensionality problems with unsupervised learning utilizing subspace models. The modeling approach involves novelty detection with the one-class SVM.
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Evangelista, P.F., Embrechts, M.J., Szymanski, B.K. (2006). Taming the Curse of Dimensionality in Kernels and Novelty Detection. In: Abraham, A., de Baets, B., Köppen, M., Nickolay, B. (eds) Applied Soft Computing Technologies: The Challenge of Complexity. Advances in Soft Computing, vol 34. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31662-0_33
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