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Foundations of Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

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OPEN CC-BY-4.0
Authors
Nidhi Sharma, Honey Singh, Ajay Sharma, Deepak Dagar
Published
2026-07-28 · Zenodo
Language
eng
Length
37166 words
Type
narrative text
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Types of Feature Engineering

Common feature engineering techniques include:

  • combining variables

  • extracting date information

  • grouping categories

  • scaling numerical values

  • creating interaction features Different applications require different feature engineering approaches depending on the nature of the data. Dimensionality Reduction Some datasets contain hundreds or thousands of features. Managing highly complex datasets may increase computational difficulty. Dimensionality reduction techniques help simplify datasets while preserving important information. This process improves:

  • efficiency

  • training speed

  • visualization

  • model performance Dimensionality reduction is commonly used in:

  • image recognition

  • recommendation systems

  • text analysis

  • big data applications