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Feature hashing and other random projection schemes are commonly used to reduce the dimensionality of feature vectors. The goal is to efficiently project a high-dimensional feature vector living in $\mathbb{R}^n$ into a much…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-03-27 Meena Jagadeesan

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma allows dimension reduction on real vectors with low distortion on their pairwise Euclidean distances. This result is often used in algorithms such as $k$-means or $k$ nearest neighbours since they only use…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2015-07-06 Ky Vu , Pierre-Louis Poirion , Leo Liberti

Dimensionality reduction is a fundamental task in modern data science. Several projection methods specifically tailored to take into account the non-linearity of the data via local embeddings have been proposed. Such methods are often based…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-01-28 Antonio Di Noia , Federico Ravenda , Antonietta Mira

In this paper we make a novel use of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma. The Lemma has an existential form saying that there exists a JL transformation $f$ of the data points into lower dimensional space such that all of them fall into…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Mieczysław A. Kłopotek

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform is a fundamental method for dimension reduction in Euclidean spaces, that can map any dataset of $n$ points into dimension $O(\log n)$ with low distortion of their distances. This dimension bound is tight…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Shay Sapir , Sandeep Silwal , Di Yue

For a family of interpolation norms $\| \cdot \|_{1,2,s}$ on $\mathbb{R}^n$, we provide a distribution over random matrices $\Phi_s \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times n}$ parametrized by sparsity level $s$ such that for a fixed set $X$ of $K$ points…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Felix Krahmer , Rachel Ward

In the Sparse Linear Regression (SLR) problem, given a $d \times n$ matrix $M$ and a $d$-dimensional query $q$, the goal is to compute a $k$-sparse $n$-dimensional vector $\tau$ such that the error $||M \tau-q||$ is minimized. This problem…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2018-05-01 Sariel Har-Peled , Piotr Indyk , Sepideh Mahabadi

Oblivious dimension reduction, \`{a} la the Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) Lemma, is a fundamental approach for processing high-dimensional data. We study this approach for Uniform Facility Location (UFL) on a Euclidean input…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Lingxiao Huang , Shaofeng H. -C. Jiang , Robert Krauthgamer , Di Yue

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma allows for the projection of $n$ points in $p-$dimensional Euclidean space onto a $k-$dimensional Euclidean space, with $k \ge \frac{24\ln \emph{n}}{3\epsilon^2-2\epsilon^3}$, so that the pairwise distances…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-05-11 Javier Rojo , Tuan Nguyen

Allen-Zhu, Gelashvili, Micali, and Shavit construct a sparse, sign-consistent Johnson-Lindenstrauss distribution, and prove that this distribution yields an essentially optimal dimension for the correct choice of sparsity. However, their…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Meena Jagadeesan

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) lemma is a cornerstone of dimensionality reduction in Euclidean space, but its applicability to non-Euclidean data has remained limited. This paper extends the JL lemma beyond Euclidean geometry to handle…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Kevin Lu , Feng Luo , Cheng Xin

The famous Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma states that for any set of n vectors, there is a linear transformation into a space of dimension O(log n) that approximately preserves all their lengths. In fact, a Haar random unitary transformation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-25 Pranab Sen

We provide the first streaming algorithm for computing a provable approximation to the $k$-means of sparse Big data. Here, sparse Big Data is a set of $n$ vectors in $\mathbb{R}^d$, where each vector has $O(1)$ non-zeroes entries, and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-02-09 Artem Barger , Dan Feldman

In this note, we develop fast and deterministic dimensionality reduction techniques for a family of subspace approximation problems. Let $P\subset \mathbbm{R}^N$ be a given set of $M$ points. The techniques developed herein find an $O(n…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2013-12-06 Mark Iwen , Felix Krahmer

Recently, a class of algorithms combining classical fixed point iterations with repeated random sparsification of approximate solution vectors has been successfully applied to eigenproblems with matrices as large as $10^{108} \times…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-28 Jonathan Weare , Robert J. Webber

The seminal result of Johnson and Lindenstrauss on random embeddings has been intensively studied in applied and theoretical computer science. Despite that vast body of literature, we still lack of complete understanding of statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Maciej Skorski

Dimension reduction plays an essential role when decreasing the complexity of solving large-scale problems. The well-known Johnson-Lindenstrauss (JL) Lemma and Restricted Isometry Property (RIP) admit the use of random projection to reduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-14 Gen Li , Yuantao Gu

Low-distortion embeddings are critical building blocks for developing random sampling and random projection algorithms for linear algebra problems. We show that, given a matrix $A \in \R^{n \times d}$ with $n \gg d$ and a $p \in [1, 2)$,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-03-22 Xiangrui Meng , Michael W. Mahoney

We present a sparse analogue to stochastic gradient descent that is guaranteed to perform well under similar conditions to the lasso. In the linear regression setup with irrepresentable noise features, our algorithm recovers the support set…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2014-12-16 Jacob Steinhardt , Stefan Wager , Percy Liang

Random projection is often used to project higher-dimensional vectors onto a lower-dimensional space, while approximately preserving their pairwise distances. It has emerged as a powerful tool in various data processing tasks and has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Wenye Li , Shuzhong Zhang