most citedRegularized target encoding outperforms traditional methods in supervised machine learning with high cardinality features

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Regularized target encoding outperforms traditional methods in supervised machine learning with high cardinality features

Florian Pargent, Florian Pfisterer, Janek Thomas +1

Since most machine learning (ML) algorithms are designed for numerical inputs, efficiently encoding categorical variables is a crucial aspect in data analysis. A common problem are…