ml-pca-most-popular-dimensionality-reduction

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Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is the most popular dimensionality reduction method, projecting higher-dimensional data to lower-dimensional space by extracting principal variables

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• IN pca-linear-special-case-of-manifold-hypothesis — PCA can be understood as a linear special case of the manifold hypothesis — it assumes data lies near a linear submanifold and finds an optimal projection onto it. This connection may partly explain PCA's popularity as a dimensionality reduction method: it represents the most tractable (and most restrictive) instance of manifold-based thinking about data representation.