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Kernel principal component analysis can represent nonlinear low-dimensional structure by performing linear PCA in a nonlinear feature space. It can also work directly with structured objects such as strings through a kernel, without assigning them explicit finite-dimensional coordinates. Both capabilities are unavailable to ordinary linear PCA on the original variables.
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