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Dimensionality reduction is a fundamental task that aims to simplify complex data by reducing its feature dimensionality while preserving essential patterns, with core applications in data analysis and visualisation. To preserve the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Thomas Dagès , Simon Weber , Ya-Wei Eileen Lin , Ronen Talmon , Daniel Cremers , Michael Lindenbaum , Alfred M. Bruckstein , Ron Kimmel

Metric embedding has become a common technique in the design of algorithms. Its applicability is often dependent on how high the embedding's distortion is. For example, embedding finite metric space into trees may require linear distortion…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Yair Bartal , Manor Mendel

We present a new technique for visualizing high-dimensional data called cluster MDS (cl-MDS), which addresses a common difficulty of dimensionality reduction methods: preserving both local and global structures of the original sample in a…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Patricia Hernández-León , Miguel A. Caro

We present a set of algorithms implementing multidimensional scaling (MDS) for large data sets. MDS is a family of dimensionality reduction techniques using a $n \times n$ distance matrix as input, where $n$ is the number of individuals,…

Computation · Statistics 2024-02-02 Pedro Delicado , Cristian Pachón-García

Classical multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a method for visualizing high-dimensional point clouds by mapping to low-dimensional Euclidean space. This mapping is defined in terms of eigenfunctions of a matrix of interpoint dissimilarities.…

Applications · Statistics 2008-11-11 Persi Diaconis , Sharad Goel , Susan Holmes

We present the MDS feature learning framework, in which multidimensional scaling (MDS) is applied on high-level pairwise image distances to learn fixed-length vector representations of images. The aspects of the images that are captured by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-06-17 Quan Wang , Kim L. Boyer

In this paper, we present Sinkhorn multidimensional scaling (Sinkhorn MDS) as a method for visualizing shape functionals in shape spaces. This approach uses the Sinkhorn divergence to map these infinite-dimensional spaces into…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Toshiaki Yachimura , Jun Okamoto , Lorenzo Cavallina

We introduce Non-Euclidean-MDS (Neuc-MDS), an extension of classical Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) that accommodates non-Euclidean and non-metric inputs. The main idea is to generalize the standard inner product to symmetric bilinear forms…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chengyuan Deng , Jie Gao , Kevin Lu , Feng Luo , Hongbin Sun , Cheng Xin

We reexamine the the classical multidimensional scaling (MDS). We study some special cases, in particular, the exact solution for the sub-space formed by the 3 dimensional principal coordinates is derived. Also we give the extreme case when…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-30 Kanti V. Mardia , Anthony D. Riley

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a dimensionality reduction technique for microbial ecology data analysis that represents the multivariate structure while preserving pairwise distances between samples. While its improvement has enhanced…

The Gini Multidimensional Scaling (Gini MDS) framework extends the Euclidean multidimensional scaling. We introduce a Gini pseudo-distance based on values and their ranks that depends on a fine-tunable hyperparameter. This pseudo-distance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Cassandra Mussard , Stéphane Mussard

We propose a novel multi-scale template matching method which is robust against both scaling and rotation in unconstrained environments. The key component behind is a similarity measure referred to as scalable diversity similarity (SDS).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Yi Zhang , Chao Zhang , Takuya Akashi

Given a matrix $D$ describing the pairwise dissimilarities of a data set, a common task is to embed the data points into Euclidean space. The classical multidimensional scaling (cMDS) algorithm is a widespread method to do this. However,…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Rishi Sonthalia , Gregory Van Buskirk , Benjamin Raichel , Anna C. Gilbert

This paper addresses the problem of mapping high-dimensional data to a low-dimensional space, in the presence of other known features. This problem is ubiquitous in science and engineering as there are often controllable/measurable features…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-01 Anh Tuan Bui

Most Machine Learning (ML) methods, from clustering to classification, rely on a distance function to describe relationships between datapoints. For complex datasets it is hard to avoid making some arbitrary choices when defining a distance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-07-04 Gina Gruenhage , Manfred Opper , Simon Barthelme

Classical metric and non-metric multidimensional scaling (MDS) variants are widely known manifold learning (ML) methods which enable construction of low dimensional representation (projections) of high dimensional data inputs. However,…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2014-06-16 Denis Horvath , Jozef Ulicny , Branislav Brutovsky

Multidimensional scaling is an important dimension reduction tool in statistics and machine learning. Yet few theoretical results characterizing its statistical performance exist, not to mention any in high dimensions. By considering a…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-03-30 Xiucai Ding , Qiang Sun

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is widely used to reconstruct a low-dimensional representation of high-dimensional data while preserving pairwise distances. However, Bayesian MDS approaches based on Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) face…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-26 Jiarui Zhang , Jiguo Cao , Liangliang Wang

Current and future wireless applications strongly rely on precise real-time localization. A number of applications such as smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT), medical services, automotive industry, underwater exploration, public safety,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-11 Nasir Saeed , Haewoon Nam , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We consider the problem of reconstructing an embedding of a compact connected Riemannian manifold in a Euclidean space up to an almost isometry, given the information on intrinsic distances between points from its ``sufficiently large''…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-01-26 Nikita Puchkin , Vladimir Spokoiny , Eugene Stepanov , Dario Trevisan