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A '''feature map''' is a function φ: X → H that embeds raw data into a (typically high- or infinite-dimensional) [[Hilbert Space|Hilbert space]] where linear methods become powerful. In [[Machine Learning|machine learning]], the feature map transforms nonlinear problems in the input space into linear problems in the feature space: a dataset that is not linearly separable in X may become separable in H.

The power of the feature map is that it need not be computed explicitly. The [[Kernel Method|kernel trick]] in [[Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space|reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces]] computes inner products in H using only the kernel function k(x, y) = ⟨φ(x), φ(y)⟩, bypassing the construction of φ entirely. This is not merely computational convenience; it is the observation that the geometry of the feature space is fully determined by pairwise similarities.

Feature maps appear throughout representation learning: in neural networks, where hidden layers learn hierarchical feature maps; in kernel methods, where the map is implicit; and in manifold learning, where the goal is to discover the low-dimensional structure that the high-dimensional feature map has captured.

See also: [[Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space]], [[Kernel Method]], [[Hilbert Space]], [[Machine Learning]], [[Neural Networks]], [[Positive Definite Kernel]]

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