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Relocation of compact sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$ by diffeomorphisms and linear separability of datasets in $\mathbb{R}^n$

Machine Learning 2026-04-24 v1

Abstract

Relocation of compact sets in an nn-dimensional manifold by self-diffeomorphism is of its own interest as well as significant potential applications to data classification in data science. This paper presents a theory for relocating a finite number of compact sets in Rn\mathbb{R}^n to be relocated to arbitrary target domains in Rn\mathbb{R}^n by diffeomorphisms of Rn\mathbb{R}^n. Furthermore, we prove that for any such collection, there exists a differentiable embedding into Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} such that their images become linearly separable. As applications of the established theory, we show that a finite number of compact datasets in Rn\mathbb{R}^n can be made linearly separable by width-nn deep neural networks (DNNs) with Leaky-ReLU, ELU, or SELU activation functions, under a mild condition. In addition, we show that any finite number of mutually disjoint compact datasets in Rn\mathbb{R}^n can be made linearly separable in Rn+1\mathbb{R}^{n+1} by a width-(n+1)(n+1) DNN.

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@article{arxiv.2604.21393,
  title  = {Relocation of compact sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$ by diffeomorphisms and linear separability of datasets in $\mathbb{R}^n$},
  author = {Xiao-Song Yang and Xuan Zhou and Qi Zhou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.21393},
  year   = {2026}
}