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Vector databases are blowing up with massive funding rounds from Weaviate, Pinecone, and Chroma—but what exactly are they? At their core, vectors are just arrays of numbers that represent things like ...

We introduce a principal support vector machine (PSVM) approach that can be used for both linear and nonlinear sufficient dimension reduction. The basic idea is to divide the response variables into ...