How does dimensionality reduction affect bias-variance tradeoff?

Updated May 16, 2026

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It reduces variance but may increase bias depending on information loss.

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Reducing features simplifies model, lowering variance and overfitting risk, but excessive reduction removes predictive information, increasing bias.

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