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Encoding Of Categorical Variables

Encoding of Categorical Variables is a domain-specific feature engineering technique that transforms non-numeric categorical data into numerical representations while preserving semantic relationships and enabling their use in mathematical models.

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286

Authors

143

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2017–2026

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104

Categorical Reparameterization with Gumbel-Softmax

Eric Jang, Shixiang Gu, Ben Poole · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016 · 3.2K citations · Full text

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Neural Factorization Machines for Sparse Predictive Analytics

Xiangnan He, Tat‐Seng Chua · 2017 · 1.3K citations

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Survey on categorical data for neural networks

John Hancock, Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar · Journal Of Big Data · 2020 · 594 citations · Full text

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A Comparative Study of Categorical Variable Encoding Techniques for Neural Network Classifiers

Kedar Potdar, S. M. A. Taher, Dani Chinmay · International Journal of Computer Applications · 2017 · 536 citations · Full text

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Entity Embeddings of Categorical Variables

Cheng Guo, Felix Berkhahn · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2016 · 307 citations · Full text

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Authors

286

  1. MC
    Ming Chen

    First Affiliated Hospital Zhejiang University, China

    2 publications · 87 citations

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  2. SG
    Shixiang Gu

    Google (United States), United States

    2 publications · 3.5K citations

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  3. EJ
    Eric Jang

    Google (United States), United States

    2 publications · 3.5K citations

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  4. RL
    Ranran Lu

    University of Tulsa, United States

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  5. JT
    Jiliang Tang

    Michigan State University, United States

    2 publications · 87 citations

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Institutions

143

  1. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    3 h-index

    6 publications

    276 citations

  2. Naval Postgraduate School

    Monterey, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    106 citations

  3. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    17 publications

    288 citations

  4. Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique

    Le Chesnay-Rocquencourt, France

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    269 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    50 citations

  6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    2 h-index

    5 publications

    259 citations

  7. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    3K citations

  8. Florida Atlantic University

    Boca Raton, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    1.3K citations

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  1. arXiv (Cornell University)

    Repository · 12 publications · 4.1K citations

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  2. IEEE Access

    3 publications · 340 citations

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  3. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis

    CSDA · 3 publications · 59 citations

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  4. The Journal of Open Source Software

    JOSS · 2 publications · 74 citations

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  5. The American Statistician

    2 publications · 83 citations

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