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We give near-tight lower bounds for the sparsity required in several dimensionality reducing linear maps. First, consider the JL lemma which states that for any set of n vectors in R there is a matrix A in R^{m x d} with m = O(eps^{-2}log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Jelani Nelson , Huy L. Nguyen

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma is a fundamental result in dimensionality reduction, ensuring that any finite set $X \subseteq \mathbb{R}^d$ can be embedded into a lower-dimensional space $\mathbb{R}^k$ while approximately preserving…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-10-30 Rafael Chiclana , Mark Iwen

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss property ({\sf JLP}) of random matrices has immense application in computer science ranging from compressed sensing, learning theory, numerical linear algebra, to privacy. This paper explores the properties and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-07-17 Jalaj Upadhyay

Embeddings play a pivotal role across various disciplines, offering compact representations of complex data structures. Randomized methods like Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) provide state-of-the-art and essentially unimprovable theoretical…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-11 Nikos Tsikouras , Constantine Caramanis , Christos Tzamos

We analyze a random projection method for adjacency matrices, studying its utility in representing sparse graphs. We show that these random projections retain the functionality of their underlying adjacency matrices while having extra…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Frank Qiu

Sparse random projection (RP) is a popular tool for dimensionality reduction that shows promising performance with low computational complexity. However, in the existing sparse RP matrices, the positions of non-zero entries are usually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Li Chen , Shuizheng Zhou , Jiajun Ma

Johnson--Lindenstrauss Transforms are powerful tools for reducing the dimensionality of data while preserving key characteristics of that data, and they have found use in many fields from machine learning to differential privacy and more.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Casper Benjamin Freksen

Recent work of [Dasgupta-Kumar-Sarlos, STOC 2010] gave a sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform and left as a main open question whether their construction could be efficiently derandomized. We answer their question affirmatively by giving…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2010-12-08 Daniel M. Kane , Jelani Nelson

We present a theory for Euclidean dimensionality reduction with subgaussian matrices which unifies several restricted isometry property and Johnson-Lindenstrauss type results obtained earlier for specific data sets. In particular, we…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-02-18 Sjoerd Dirksen

We present a simplified and unified analysis of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma, a cornerstone of dimensionality reduction for managing high-dimensional data. Our approach simplifies understanding and unifies various constructions…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-22 Yingru Li

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma allows subsets of a high-dimensional space to be embedded into a lower-dimensional space while approximately preserving all pairwise Euclidean distances. This important result has inspired an extensive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Edem Boahen , March T. Boedihardjo , Rafael Chiclana , Mark Iwen

There has been recently a lot of research on sparse variants of random projections, faster adaptations of the state-of-the-art dimensionality reduction technique originally due to Johsnon and Lindenstrauss. Although the construction is very…

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For any $n>1$ and $0<\varepsilon<1/2$, we show the existence of an $n^{O(1)}$-point subset $X$ of $\mathbb{R}^n$ such that any linear map from $(X,\ell_2)$ to $\ell_2^m$ with distortion at most $1+\varepsilon$ must have $m = \Omega(\min\{n,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Kasper Green Larsen , Jelani Nelson

Sparse regression has been a popular approach to perform variable selection and enhance the prediction accuracy and interpretability of the resulting statistical model. Existing approaches focus on offline regularized regression, while the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-01-03 Shuoguang Yang , Yuhao Yan , Xiuneng Zhu , Qiang Sun

Transformer networks are able to capture patterns in data coming from many domains (text, images, videos, proteins, etc.) with little or no change to architecture components. We perform a theoretical analysis of the core component…

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This paper considers the projection-free sparse convex optimization problem for the vector domain and the matrix domain, which covers a large number of important applications in machine learning and data science. For the vector domain…

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This paper investigates theoretical properties of subsampling and hashing as tools for approximate Euclidean norm-preserving embeddings for vectors with (unknown) additive Gaussian noises. Such embeddings are sometimes called…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Zhen Shao

Random projections are random linear maps, sampled from appropriate distributions, that approx- imately preserve certain geometrical invariants so that the approximation improves as the dimension of the space grows. The well-known…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Ky Vu , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Leo Liberti

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma states that there exist linear maps that project a set of points of a vector space into a space of much lower dimension such that the Euclidean distance between these points is approximately preserved. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Pierre-Louis Poirion , Bruno F. Lourenço , Akiko Takeda

For every fixed constant $\alpha > 0$, we design an algorithm for computing the $k$-sparse Walsh-Hadamard transform of an $N$-dimensional vector $x \in \mathbb{R}^N$ in time $k^{1+\alpha} (\log N)^{O(1)}$. Specifically, the algorithm is…

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