arXiv Machine Learning By Daniel Herrera-Esposito, Johannes Burge

Supervised Quadratic Feature Analysis: Information Geometry Approach for Dimensionality Reduction

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arXiv:2502. 00168v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Supervised dimensionality reduction maps labeled data into a low-dimensional feature space while preserving class separation.

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