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Many techniques in machine learning attempt explicitly or implicitly to infer a low-dimensional manifold structure of an underlying physical phenomenon from measurements without an explicit model of the phenomenon or the measurement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-04 Roy R. Lederman , Bogdan Toader

Manifold learning builds on the "manifold hypothesis," which posits that data in high-dimensional datasets are drawn from lower-dimensional manifolds. Current tools generate global embeddings of data, rather than the local maps used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Serena Hughes , Timothy Hamilton , Tom Kolokotrones , Eric J. Deeds

We develop algorithms for sampling from a probability distribution on a submanifold embedded in Rn. Applications are given to the evaluation of algorithms in 'Topological Statistics'; to goodness of fit tests in exponential families and to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2012-07-06 Persi Diaconis , Susan Holmes , Mehrdad Shahshahani

The statistics and machine learning communities have recently seen a growing interest in classification-based approaches to two-sample testing. The outcome of a classification-based two-sample test remains a rejection decision, which is not…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-11-15 Loris Michel , Jeffrey Näf , Nicolai Meinshausen

Score-matching generative models have proven successful at sampling from complex high-dimensional data distributions. In many applications, this distribution is believed to concentrate on a much lower $d$-dimensional manifold embedded into…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-04-25 Peter Potaptchik , Iskander Azangulov , George Deligiannidis

Drawing motivation from the manifold hypothesis, which posits that most high-dimensional data lies on or near low-dimensional manifolds, we apply manifold learning to the space of neural networks. We learn manifolds where datapoints are…

Random geometric graphs are random graph models defined on metric spaces. Such a model is defined by first sampling points from a metric space and then connecting each pair of sampled points with probability that depends on their distance,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Han Huang , Pakawut Jiradilok , Elchanan Mossel

The present paper answers the following questions related with high-dimensional manova: (i) is it possible to develop a likelihood ratio test for high-dimensional manova? (ii) would such test perform well? (iii) would it be able to…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-07-03 Carlos A. Coelho

The manifold hypothesis posits that high-dimensional data typically resides on low-dimensional sub spaces. In this paper, we assume manifold hypothesis to investigate graph-based semi-supervised learning methods. In particular, we examine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mary Chriselda Antony Oliver , Michael Roberts , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Matthew Thorpe

We study the approximate nearest neighbour method for cost-sensitive classification on low-dimensional manifolds embedded within a high-dimensional feature space. We determine the minimax learning rates for distributions on a smooth…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Henry WJ Reeve , Gavin Brown

We consider the problem of hypothesis testing for discrete distributions. In the standard model, where we have sample access to an underlying distribution $p$, extensive research has established optimal bounds for uniformity testing,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Maryam Aliakbarpour , Piotr Indyk , Ronitt Rubinfeld , Sandeep Silwal

We assume that $M_0$ is a $d$-dimensional $C^{2,1}$-smooth submanifold of $R^n$. Let $K_0$ be the convex hull of $M_0,$ and $B^n_1(0)$ be the unit ball. We assume that $ M_0 \subseteq \partial K_0 \subseteq B^n_1(0).$ We also suppose that…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-12-20 Charles Fefferman , Sergei Ivanov , Matti Lassas , Hariharan Narayanan

A measurement strategy is developed for a new kind of hypothesis testing. It assigns, with minimum probability of error, the state of a quantum system to one or the other of two complementary subsets of a set of N given non-orthogonal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Ulrike Herzog , Janos A. Bergou

A common observation in data-driven applications is that high-dimensional data have a low intrinsic dimension, at least locally. In this work, we consider the problem of point estimation for manifold-valued data. Namely, given a finite set…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-03-11 Yariv Aizenbud , Barak Sober

Modern sample points in many applications no longer comprise real vectors in a real vector space but sample points of much more complex structures, which may be represented as points in a space with a certain underlying geometric structure,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-07 Zhigang Yao , Bingjie Li , Wee Chin Tan

In a recent paper, the authors proposed a general methodology for probabilistic learning on manifolds. The method was used to generate numerical samples that are statistically consistent with an existing dataset construed as a realization…

Probability · Mathematics 2018-03-30 C. Soizea , R. Ghanem , C. Safta , X. Huan , Z. P. Vane , J. Oefelein , G. Lacaz , H. N. Najm , Q. Tang , X. Chen

We present an algorithm for testing halfspaces over arbitrary, unknown rotation-invariant distributions. Using $\tilde O(\sqrt{n}\epsilon^{-7})$ random examples of an unknown function $f$, the algorithm determines with high probability…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-11-02 Nathaniel Harms

In computational mechanics, multiple models are often present to describe a physical system. While Bayesian model selection is a helpful tool to compare these models using measurement data, it requires the computationally expensive…

Computation · Statistics 2025-04-14 Subhayan De , Reza Farzad , Patrick T. Brewick , Erik A. Johnson , Steven F. Wojtkiewicz

The manifold hypothesis, which assumes that data lies on or close to an unknown manifold of low intrinsic dimension, is a staple of modern machine learning research. However, recent work has shown that real-world data exhibits distinct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Julius von Rohrscheidt , Bastian Rieck

A fundamental problem in manifold learning is to approximate a functional relationship in a data chosen randomly from a probability distribution supported on a low dimensional sub-manifold of a high dimensional ambient Euclidean space. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-11 H. N. Mhaskar , Ryan O'Dowd