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Fitting a manifold to data in the presence of large noise

Statistics Theory 2023-12-20 v2 Differential Geometry Statistics Theory

Abstract

We assume that M0M_0 is a dd-dimensional C2,1C^{2,1}-smooth submanifold of RnR^n. Let K0K_0 be the convex hull of M0,M_0, and B1n(0)B^n_1(0) be the unit ball. We assume that M0K0B1n(0). M_0 \subseteq \partial K_0 \subseteq B^n_1(0). We also suppose that M0M_0 has volume (dd-dimensional Hausdorff measure) less or equal to VV, reach (i.e., normal injectivity radius) greater or equal to τ\tau. Moreover, we assume that M0M_0 is RR-exposed, that is, tangent to every point xMx \in M there is a closed ball of radius RR that contains MM. Let x1,,xNx_1, \dots, x_N be independent random variables sampled from uniform distribution on M0M_0 and ζ1,,ζN\zeta_1, \dots, \zeta_N be a sequence of i.i.d Gaussian random variables in RnR^n that are independent of x1,,xNx_1, \dots, x_N and have mean zero and covariance σ2In.\sigma^2 I_n. We assume that we are given the noisy sample points yiy_i, given by yi=xi+ζi, for i=1,2,,N. y_i = x_i + \zeta_i,\quad \hbox{ for }i = 1, 2, \dots,N. Let ϵ,η>0\epsilon,\eta>0 be real numbers and k2k\geq 2. Given points yiy_i, i=1,2,,Ni=1,2,\dots,N, we produce a CkC^k-smooth function which zero set is a manifold MrecRnM_{rec}\subseteq R^n such that the Hausdorff distance between MrecM_{rec} and M0M_0 is at most ϵ \epsilon and MrecM_{rec} has reach that is bounded below by cτ/d6c\tau/d^6 with probability at least 1η.1 - \eta. Assuming d<cloglognd < c \sqrt{\log \log n} and all the other parameters are positive constants independent of nn, the number of the needed arithmetic operations is polynomial in nn. In the present work, we allow the noise magnitude σ\sigma to be an arbitrarily large constant, thus overcoming a drawback of previous work.

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@article{arxiv.2312.10598,
  title  = {Fitting a manifold to data in the presence of large noise},
  author = {Charles Fefferman and Sergei Ivanov and Matti Lassas and Hariharan Narayanan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.10598},
  year   = {2023}
}