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Fast binary embeddings with Gaussian circulant matrices: improved bounds

Information Theory 2017-12-27 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms math.IT

Abstract

We consider the problem of encoding a finite set of vectors into a small number of bits while approximately retaining information on the angular distances between the vectors. By deriving improved variance bounds related to binary Gaussian circulant embeddings, we largely fix a gap in the proof of the best known fast binary embedding method. Our bounds also show that well-spreadness assumptions on the data vectors, which were needed in earlier work on variance bounds, are unnecessary. In addition, we propose a new binary embedding with a faster running time on sparse data.

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@article{arxiv.1608.06498,
  title  = {Fast binary embeddings with Gaussian circulant matrices: improved bounds},
  author = {Sjoerd Dirksen and Alexander Stollenwerk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.06498},
  year   = {2017}
}
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