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Artificial intelligence, particularly the subfield of machine learning, has seen a paradigm shift towards data-driven models that learn from and adapt to data. This has resulted in unprecedented advancements in various domains such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Leonardo Petrini

The curse of dimensionality is a phenomenon frequently observed in machine learning (ML) and knowledge discovery (KD). There is a large body of literature investigating its origin and impact, using methods from mathematics as well as from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Tom Hanika , Friedrich Martin Schneider , Gerd Stumme

Similarity and metric learning provides a principled approach to construct a task-specific similarity from weakly supervised data. However, these methods are subject to the curse of dimensionality: as the number of features grows large,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-10 Kuan Liu , Aurélien Bellet

This work proposes a sampling-based (non-intrusive) approach within the context of low-rank separated representations to tackle the issue of curse-of-dimensionality associated with the solution of models, e.g., PDEs/ODEs, with…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2013-06-20 Alireza Doostan , AbdoulAhad Validi , Gianluca Iaccarino

In this paper we prove that rectified deep neural networks do not suffer from the curse of dimensionality when approximating McKean--Vlasov SDEs in the sense that the number of parameters in the deep neural networks only grows polynomially…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-06-13 Ariel Neufeld , Tuan Anh Nguyen

The curse of dimensionality has been studied in different aspects. However, breaking the curse has been elusive. We show for the first time that it is possible to break the curse using the recently introduced Isolation Kernel. We show that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-30 Kai Ming Ting , Takashi Washio , Ye Zhu , Yang Xu

The failure of the Euclidean norm to reliably distinguish between nearby and distant points in high dimensional space is well-known. This phenomenon of distance concentration manifests in a variety of data distributions, with iid or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Brian A. Powell

Advances in computational power and hardware efficiency have enabled tackling increasingly complex, high-dimensional problems. While artificial intelligence (AI) achieves remarkable results, the interpretability of high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Federico Tessari , Kunpeng Yao , Neville Hogan

Efficient indexing and searching of high dimensional data has been an area of active research due to the growing exploitation of high dimensional data and the vulnerability of traditional search methods to the curse of dimensionality. This…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yu Zhong

Most exact methods for k-nearest neighbour search suffer from the curse of dimensionality; that is, their query times exhibit exponential dependence on either the ambient or the intrinsic dimensionality. Dynamic Continuous Indexing (DCI)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-07-21 Ke Li , Jitendra Malik

We study the $L_{\infty}$-approximation of $d$-variate functions from Hilbert spaces via linear functionals as information. It is a common phenomenon in tractability studies that unweighted problems (with each dimension being equally…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-12-12 Robert J. Kunsch

There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that exact nearest neighbour search in high-dimensional spaces is affected by the curse of dimensionality at a fundamental level. Does it necessarily mean that the same is true for k…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-02-18 Vladimir Pestov

In large-scale image retrieval, many indexing methods have been proposed to narrow down the searching scope of retrieval. The features extracted from images usually are of high dimensions or unfixed sizes due to the existence of key points.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Ying Wang , Tingzhen Liu , Zepeng Bu , Yuhui Huang , Lizhong Gao , Qiao Wang

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become a very powerful tool in the approximation of high-dimensional functions. Especially, deep ANNs, consisting of a large number of hidden layers, have been very successfully used in a series of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-03-09 Philipp Grohs , Shokhrukh Ibragimov , Arnulf Jentzen , Sarah Koppensteiner

This paper demonstrates that when a shallow neural network with a Lipschitz continuous activation function is trained using either empirical or population risk to approximate a target function that is $r$ times continuously differentiable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Sanghoon Na , Haizhao Yang

We prove the curse of dimensionality for multivariate integration of C^r functions: The number of needed function values to achieve an error \epsilon\ is larger than c_r (1+\gamma)^d for \epsilon\le \epsilon_0, where c_r,\gamma>0 and d is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-22 Aicke Hinrichs , Erich Novak , Mario Ullrich , Henryk Wozniakowski

Modern vector databases enable efficient retrieval over high-dimensional neural embeddings, powering applications from web search to retrieval-augmented generation. However, classical theory predicts such tasks should suffer from the curse…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Vihan Lakshman , Blaise Munyampirwa , Julian Shun , Benjamin Coleman

Information Retrieval using dense low-dimensional representations recently became popular and showed out-performance to traditional sparse-representations like BM25. However, no previous work investigated how dense representations perform…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Nils Reimers , Iryna Gurevych

In repeated Measure Designs with multiple groups, the primary purpose is to compare different groups in various aspects. For several reasons, the number of measurements and therefore the dimension of the observation vectors can depend on…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-20 Paavo Sattler , Markus Pauly

High-dimensional big data appears in many research fields such as image recognition, biology and collaborative filtering. Often, the exploration of such data by classic algorithms is encountered with difficulties due to `curse of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-07-13 Amit Bermanis , Aviv Rotbart , Moshe Salhov , Amir Averbuch