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A scale-based approach to finding effective dimensionality in manifold learning

Statistics Theory 2008-03-17 v2 Statistics Theory

Abstract

The discovering of low-dimensional manifolds in high-dimensional data is one of the main goals in manifold learning. We propose a new approach to identify the effective dimension (intrinsic dimension) of low-dimensional manifolds. The scale space viewpoint is the key to our approach enabling us to meet the challenge of noisy data. Our approach finds the effective dimensionality of the data over all scale without any prior knowledge. It has better performance compared with other methods especially in the presence of relatively large noise and is computationally efficient.

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@article{arxiv.0710.5349,
  title  = {A scale-based approach to finding effective dimensionality in manifold learning},
  author = {Xiaohui Wang and J. S. Marron},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0710.5349},
  year   = {2008}
}

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Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/07-EJS137 the Electronic Journal of Statistics (http://www.i-journals.org/ejs/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)

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