Working with Large-Scale One-Hot Encoding: A Memory-Efficient Approach
Tame Your RAM-Hungry Categorical Variables Without Breaking Your Machine
Hey everyone! Recently, I've been diving deep into handling massive datasets, and today I want to share a clever workaround I discovered while tackling the Criteo Advertising Competition on Kaggle. Trust me, this one's going to be good!
The Challenge
Picture this: You've got an 11GB training dataset with categorical variables that can take millions of un…
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