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This work presents a fast and non-convex algorithm for robust subspace recovery. The data sets considered include inliers drawn around a low-dimensional subspace of a higher dimensional ambient space, and a possibly large portion of…
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There is a growing interest in computer science, engineering, and mathematics for modeling signals in terms of union of subspaces and manifolds. Subspace segmentation and clustering of high dimensional data drawn from a union of subspaces…
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Subspace clustering is to find underlying low-dimensional subspaces and cluster the data points correctly. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-view subspace clustering method. Most existing methods suffer from two critical issues.…
Interactive exploration of large, multidimensional datasets plays a very important role in various scientific fields. It makes it possible not only to identify important structural features and forms, such as clusters of vertices and their…
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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…