In machine-learning, a feature is an input variable to a supervised learning problem.
In typical scenarios, the dataset () consists of pairs where is a -dimensional vector of inputs and is called the output value.
The component is-called the -th feature. The -th feature vector is the vector:
Other names for the features are:
- covariates,
- independent variables,
- explanatory variables,
- exogenous variables,
- predictors,
- regressors