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The Meaning of Object Features in different ML-Contexts

When I gave a few introductory courses on basic Machine Learning [ML] algorithms in 2022, I sometimes ran into a discussion about “features“. The discussions were not only triggered by my personal definition, but also by some introductory books on ML the attendants had read. Across such textbooks, but even in a single book on ML the authors have a tendency to use the term “features” in different contexts of ML-algorithms and in particular Artificial Neural Networks [ANN]. Unfortunately, the meaning of the term is… Read More »The Meaning of Object Features in different ML-Contexts