PCA rotates the data onto the directions of greatest variance and keeps the top few, compressing twenty thousand genes into a few hundred numbers before a model sees them.
Principal component analysis is a linear dimensionality reduction technique used in exploratory analysis and preprocessing (Wikipedia). Reducing a full transcriptome to about 256 components before ridge or Cox regression is a strong, cheap baseline and the extraction recipe for frozen foundation-model embeddings; reducing each modality separately before concatenation stops a small block (a few hundred proteins) being swamped by a large one (all genes). The components must be fitted on the training fold only.
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Shares Multimodal fusion (early, late, modality dropout), Embedding (learned representation), Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map) and the tag cansim-terms.
Shares Multimodal fusion (early, late, modality dropout), Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map) and the tag cansim-terms.
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Shares Ridge regression and the multilayer perceptron, Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map) and the tag cansim-terms.
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Shares Ridge regression and the multilayer perceptron, Cancer AI vocabulary (CanSim terms map) and the tag cansim-terms.