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Pattern recognition

the rise and then fall of a classifier's accuracy as more features are added while the training sample size stays fixed.

In pattern recognition, Hughes phenomenon refers to the rise and then fall of a classifier's accuracy as more features are added while the training sample size stays fixed. This meaning comes from Hughes (1968) in IEEE Transactions on Information Theory.[1]

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References

Hughes, G. (1968). On the mean accuracy of statistical pattern recognizers. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 14(1), 55-63. https://doi.org/10.1109/tit.1968.1054102

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