Jeremy mentioned a paper in lesson 4 that suggests binning continuous variables in some cases and embedding them as categorical variables. Does anyone have a reference for the paper?
I think you are looking for this paper “Entity Embeddings of Categorical Variables” by Guo and Berkhahn.
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Are you suggesting that binning and matrix embedding is the same?? I understood that you use binning for reducing cardinality of categorical data (or even treating continuous values as categorical) and then you can do this matrix embedding representation. So still unclear what that paper he mentions about binning is.