Whitening
From Ufldl
(→2D example) |
(→2D example) |
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Further, | Further, | ||
the off-diagonal entries are zero; thus, | the off-diagonal entries are zero; thus, | ||
- | <math>\textstyle x_{{\rm rot},1}</math> and <math>\textstyle x_{{\rm rot},2}</math> are uncorrelated, satisfying our | + | <math>\textstyle x_{{\rm rot},1}</math> and <math>\textstyle x_{{\rm rot},2}</math> are uncorrelated, satisfying one of our desiderata |
- | for whitened data | + | for whitened data (that the features be less correlated). |
To make each of our input features have unit variance, we can simply rescale | To make each of our input features have unit variance, we can simply rescale |