The curse of dimensionality refers to statistical and computational difficulties that arise as feature dimensions grow very large and sparse.
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Curse of Dimensionality
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The curse of dimensionality refers to statistical and computational difficulties that arise as feature dimensions grow very large and sparse.
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High dimensions make learning and search much harder.
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