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> What is the return value of ordinal encoding for multi-valued categorical features？

Hello,
The return value for ordinal encoding for categorical features is one ordered integer feature
What is the return value of ordinal encoding for multi-valued categorical features?
thanks.

Posted by: lhg1992 @ Aug. 24, 2018, 8:04 a.m.

and what does multi-fidelity AutoML approaches mean?

Posted by: lhg1992 @ Aug. 24, 2018, 8:06 a.m.

Hi,

The encoding works similarly for multi-categorical variables. One ordinal value per feature value, more info here:

https://github.com/scikit-learn-contrib/categorical-encoding/blob/master/category_encoders/ordinal.py

Best

HJ

Posted by: hugo.jair @ Aug. 24, 2018, 11:10 p.m.
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