Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2026 iii Paper 218 4 g Solution Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
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.