Theory of Intelligence
MACHINE LEARNING•Unsupervised Learning•Dimensionality Reduction•1.4 Choosing Dimensions & Compression

Introduction

Decide how many principal components to keep with the explained variance ratio, use PCA to compress and reconstruct data, and handle large datasets with incremental PCA.

Introduction

PCA can give you as many principal components as there are features. The practical question is: how many should you keep? Keep too few and you lose important information; keep too many and you don't gain much.

This topic covers how to choose, how PCA works as a compression method (and how to "decompress"), and how to run PCA on datasets too large for memory.

Discuss theoretical concepts, mathematical formulas, and architectural foundations.

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