Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
A feature in which most or all values are nonzero, typically a Tensor of floating-point values. For example, the following 10-element Tensor is dense because 9 of its values are nonzero:
Contrast with sparse feature.
Created for this library
A click-prediction team includes dense features like predicted user engagement score alongside one-hot ad ID features in its model.
A churn modeling team uses dense features like average monthly engagement minutes and last-login recency in its production model.
A retail recommendation team feeds dense features from a learned user embedding into its ranker.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License