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Estimating intrinsic dimensionality of data is a classic problem in pattern recognition and statistics. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a powerful tool in discovering dimensionality of data sets with a linear structure; it, however,…
We demonstrate the utility of an unsupervised machine learning tool for the detection of phase transitions in off-lattice systems. We focus on the application of principal component analysis (PCA) to detect the freezing transitions of…
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