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Apr 19, 2022 · Artificial Intelligence

Understanding Nonlinearity in Machine Learning: From Logistic Regression to Neural Networks

The article explores the concept of nonlinearity in machine learning, illustrating why tasks like distinguishing cat versus dog or predicting body shape from height and weight are challenging for linear models, and discusses feature engineering, kernel tricks, and periodic activation functions as strategies to introduce nonlinearity and improve model performance.