Glossary term
Glossary term
Foundations
The process of extracting features from an input source, such as a document or video, and mapping those features into a feature vector.
Some ML experts use featurization as a synonym for feature engineering or feature extraction.
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An ML platform team builds a featurization service so feature transformations are identical between training and serving.
A retail forecasting team versions its featurization pipeline so retraining can be reproduced exactly when needed for audits.
A risk modeling team builds featurization on top of the data warehouse so model owners can request features as additions to a managed catalog.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License