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Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a dimensionality reduction technique for microbial ecology data analysis that represents the multivariate structure while preserving pairwise distances between samples. While its improvement has enhanced…

Metric Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a classical method for generating meaningful (non-linear) low-dimensional embeddings of high-dimensional data. MDS has a long history in the statistics, machine learning, and graph drawing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Erik Demaine , Adam Hesterberg , Frederic Koehler , Jayson Lynch , John Urschel

Most Machine Learning (ML) methods, from clustering to classification, rely on a distance function to describe relationships between datapoints. For complex datasets it is hard to avoid making some arbitrary choices when defining a distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-04 Gina Gruenhage , Manfred Opper , Simon Barthelme

We present a new technique for visualizing high-dimensional data called cluster MDS (cl-MDS), which addresses a common difficulty of dimensionality reduction methods: preserving both local and global structures of the original sample in a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Patricia Hernández-León , Miguel A. Caro

This paper reports on the state-of-the-art in application of multidimensional scaling (MDS) techniques to create semantic maps in linguistic research. MDS refers to a statistical technique that represents objects (lexical items, linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Martijn van der Klis , Jos Tellings

We present the MDS feature learning framework, in which multidimensional scaling (MDS) is applied on high-level pairwise image distances to learn fixed-length vector representations of images. The aspects of the images that are captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Quan Wang , Kim L. Boyer

Manifold learning is used for dimensionality reduction, with the goal of finding a projection subspace to increase and decrease the inter- and intraclass variances, respectively. However, a bottleneck for subspace learning methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Parisa Abdolrahim Poorheravi , Vincent Gaudet

Manifold learning (ML), known also as non-linear dimension reduction, is a set of methods to find the low dimensional structure of data. Dimension reduction for large, high dimensional data is not merely a way to reduce the data; the new…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-08 Marina Meilă , Hanyu Zhang

Multidimensional scaling is an important dimension reduction tool in statistics and machine learning. Yet few theoretical results characterizing its statistical performance exist, not to mention any in high dimensions. By considering a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-30 Xiucai Ding , Qiang Sun

The linear representation hypothesis states that language models (LMs) encode concepts as directions in their latent space, forming organized, multidimensional manifolds. Prior work has largely focused on identifying specific geometries for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Federico Tiblias , Irina Bigoulaeva , Jingcheng Niu , Simone Balloccu , Iryna Gurevych

We have designed a new efficient dimensionality reduction algorithm in order to investigate new ways of accurately characterizing the biodiversity, namely from a geometric point of view, scaling with large environmental sets produced by NGS…

Leveraging the intrinsic symmetries in data for clear and efficient analysis is an important theme in signal processing and other data-driven sciences. A basic example of this is the ubiquity of the discrete Fourier transform which arises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Mark Blumstein , Henry Kvinge

Multidimensional scaling visualizes dissimilarities among objects and reduces data dimensionality. While many methods address symmetric proximity data, asymmetric and especially three-way proximity data (capturing relationships across…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-21 Aleix Alcacer , Rafael Benitez , Vicente J. Bolos , Irene Epifanio

Multimodal deep learning methods capture synergistic features from multiple modalities and have the potential to improve accuracy for stress detection compared to unimodal methods. However, this accuracy gain typically comes from high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Morteza Bodaghi , Majid Hosseini , Raju Gottumukkala

In order to avoid the curse of dimensionality, frequently encountered in Big Data analysis, there was a vast development in the field of linear and nonlinear dimension reduction techniques in recent years. These techniques (sometimes…

Graphics · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Barak Sober , David Levin

Many approaches in the field of machine learning and data analysis rely on the assumption that the observed data lies on lower-dimensional manifolds. This assumption has been verified empirically for many real data sets. To make use of this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Erik Thordsen , Erich Schubert

We develop a formal statistical framework for classical multidimensional scaling (CMDS) applied to noisy dissimilarity data. We establish distributional convergence results for the embeddings produced by CMDS for various noise models, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Siddharth Vishwanath , Ery Arias-Castro

Representational similarity analysis (RSA) has been shown to be an effective framework to characterize brain-activity profiles and deep neural network activations as representational geometry by computing the pairwise distances of the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2019-07-30 Baihan Lin , Marieke Mur , Tim Kietzmann , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte

Majority of the current dimensionality reduction or retrieval techniques rely on embedding the learned feature representations onto a computable metric space. Once the learned features are mapped, a distance metric aids the bridging of gaps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-17 Muhammad Kamran Janjua , Shah Nawaz , Alessandro Calefati , Ignazio Gallo

Metric embeddings are a widely used method in algorithm design, where generally a ``complex'' metric is embedded into a simpler, lower-dimensional one. Historically, the theoretical computer science community has focused on bi-Lipschitz…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ainesh Bakshi , Vincent Cohen-Addad , Samuel B. Hopkins , Rajesh Jayaram , Silvio Lattanzi