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What is the difference between features and inputs in machine learning?

I have seen many places that features and inputs have been used interchangeably when talking about machine learning especially deep neural networks. I want to know if they are indeed the same thing or ...
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What is the name of a feature space which has consistant distance-related properties?

What is the word describing a feature space where distance between two elements has a decisive informational value, whatever the pair of elements is? For example if a model creates embeddings for ...
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What do state features mean in the context of inverse RL?

I am reading Zeibart's Inverse RL paper, and it states - The agent is assumed to be attempting to optimize some function that linearly maps the features of each state, $f_{sj} \in \mathbb{R}^k$, to a ...
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What does it mean by "low-level" and "high-level" in features generated by CNN?

Across the literature, the terms "high-level" and "low-level" are generally used as an adjective to the features generated by the convolution neural network as intermediate ...
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When can we call a feature "hierarchical"?

Features in machine learning are the attributes of the elements of a data set. They are considered as random variables in probability. Consider the following excerpt from 1.1: The deep learning ...
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What is "conditioning" on a feature?

On page 98 of Jet Substructure at the Large Hadron Collider: A Review of Recent Advances in Theory and Machine Learning the author writes; Redacted phase space: Studying the distribution of inputs ...
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What is the correct name for state explosion from sensor discretization?

The position of a robot on a map contains of an x/y value, for example $position(x=100.23,y=400.78)$. The internal representation of the variable is a 32bit float which is equal to 4 byte in the RAM ...