“…In fact, as also mathematically proved in Aggarwal et al (2001) and Verleysen et al (2003), as the number of dimensions increases, the concepts of distance and nearest neighbors both lose meaningfulness. Thus, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) represent a valid alternative to improve the classification efficiency when dealing with high-dimensional spaces, and they have also already been successfully exploited for combustion and chemical kinetics applications (Christo et al, 1995(Christo et al, , 1996Blasco et al, 1998;Hao et al, 2001;Galindo et al, 2005;Chen et al, 2020;Dalakoti et al, 2020;Debiagi et al, 2020;Angelilli et al, 2021). ANNs have also been introduced in the context of Large Eddy Simulations of reactive flows in Ihme et al (2009), and the comparison with conventional tabulation techniques for chemistry representation led to excellent results in terms of accuracy.…”