curse of dimensionality en · NOUN
Etymology
Coined by American mathematician Richard E. Bellman.
Meanings
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A problem in the analysis of multidimensional systems caused by the sparse nature of the available data.
The curse of dimensionality is that vectors will get exponentially farther and farther away from one another, in Euclidean distance, as the dimensionality increases. A lot of simple operations become impractical above 10 or 20 dimensions, like sorting a large list of vectors based on their distance[…]
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pt maldição da dimensionalidade (Translations) · cmn 維數災難 /维数灾难 (Translations) · ru проклятие размерности (Translations) · de Fluch der Dimensionalität (Translations) · fi dimensionaalisuuden kirous (Translations) · ro blestemul dimensionalității (Translations)