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by ummonk 1561 days ago
I personally am a fan of basis free linear algebra.

More importantly though, “tensors” as commonly used in machine learning seem to rely on a single special basis, so they really are just multidimensional arrays. A machine learning algorithm isn’t really invariant under a change of basis. For example, the ReLU activation function is not independent of a change of basis.