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Principal Component Analysis

beginnerunsupervised
parametricdimensionality_reductionrepresentationtabular

PCA rotates data onto new perpendicular axes ordered by how much variance they capture.

Mechanisms

linear projectionvariance maximizationmatrix factorization

Properties

interpretablerepresentation learning

Constraints

requires scalingsensitive to outliers

Practical profile

Explainability
medium
Training cost
low
Inference cost
low
Data appetite
low