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The local linear embedding algorithm (LLE) is a non-linear dimension-reducing technique, widely used due to its computational simplicity and intuitive approach. LLE first linearly reconstructs each input point from its nearest neighbors and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2008-08-07 Yair Goldberg , Ya'acov Ritov

For an unknown continuous distribution on a real line, we consider the approximate estimation by the discretization. There are two methods for the discretization. First method is to divide the real line into several intervals before taking…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2017-10-12 Yo Sheena

This paper presents an unsupervised deep-learning framework named Local Deep-Feature Alignment (LDFA) for dimension reduction. We construct neighbourhood for each data sample and learn a local Stacked Contractive Auto-encoder (SCAE) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Jian Zhang , Jun Yu , Dacheng Tao

Distributed optimization methods with local updates have recently attracted a lot of attention due to their potential to reduce the communication cost of distributed methods. In these algorithms, a collection of nodes performs several local…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-10-11 Sulaiman A. Alghunaim

In recent years, deep discriminative models have achieved extraordinary performance on supervised learning tasks, significantly outperforming their generative counterparts. However, their success relies on the presence of a large amount of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-05 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Hashing methods have been widely used for applications of large-scale image retrieval and classification. Non-deep hashing methods using handcrafted features have been significantly outperformed by deep hashing methods due to their better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-10 Jingkuan Song , Tao He , Hangbo Fan , Lianli Gao

The paper deals with models in which the dependent variable, some explanatory variables, or both represent sensitive data. We introduce a novel discretization method that preserves data privacy when working with such variables. A multiple…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-09-25 Felix Chan , Laszlo Matyas , Agoston Reguly

Manifold learning techniques, such as Locally linear embedding (LLE), are designed to preserve the local neighborhood structures of high-dimensional data during dimensionality reduction. Traditional LLE employs Euclidean distance to define…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ali Goli , Mahdieh Alizadeh , Hadi Sadoghi Yazdi

Linear dimensionality reduction techniques are powerful tools for image analysis as they allow the identification of important features in a data set. In particular, nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) has become very popular as it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-10-07 Gabriella Casalino , Nicolas Gillis

Machine learning is a data-driven field, and the quality of the underlying datasets plays a crucial role in learning success. However, high performance on held-out test data does not necessarily indicate that a model generalizes or learns…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Nicolas M. Müller , Jochen Jacobs , Jennifer Williams , Konstantin Böttinger

The fractional Schr\"{o}dinger equation (FSE) on the real line arises in a broad range of physical settings and their numerical simulation is challenging due to the nonlocal nature and the power law decay of the solution at infinity. In…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Mengxia Shen , Haiyong Wang

We present a novel feature selection technique, Sparse Linear Centroid-Encoder (SLCE). The algorithm uses a linear transformation to reconstruct a point as its class centroid and, at the same time, uses the $\ell_1$-norm penalty to filter…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Tomojit Ghosh , Michael Kirby , Karim Karimov

The standard methodology handling nonlinear PDE's involves the two steps: numerical discretization to get a set of nonlinear algebraic equations, and then the application of the Newton iterative linearization or its variants to solve the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 W. Chen

This survey addresses sampling discretization and its connections with other areas of mathematics. The survey concentrates on sampling discretization of norms of elements of finite-dimensional subspaces. We present here known results on…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2022-02-11 B. Kashin , E. Kosov , I. Limonova , V. Temlyakov

We introduce a discretization scheme for continuous localized frames using quasi-Monte Carlo integration and discrepancy theory. By generalizing classical concepts, we define a discrepancy measure on the entire phase space $\mathbb{R}^2$…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Jan Zimmermann , Andreas Klotz , Nicki Holighaus

A classification algorithm, called the Linear Centralization Classifier (LCC), is introduced. The algorithm seeks to find a transformation that best maps instances from the feature space to a space where they concentrate towards the center…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-25 Mohammad Reza Bonyadi , Viktor Vegh , David C. Reutens

Most of existing manifold learning methods rely on Mean Squared Error (MSE) or $\ell_2$ norm. However, for the problem of image quality assessment, these are not promising measure. In this paper, we introduce the concept of an image…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-08-27 Benyamin Ghojogh , Fakhri Karray , Mark Crowley

We revisit Deep Linear Discriminant Analysis (Deep LDA) from a likelihood-based perspective. While classical LDA is a simple Gaussian model with linear decision boundaries, attaching an LDA head to a neural encoder raises the question of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-23 Maxat Tezekbayev , Arman Bolatov , Zhenisbek Assylbekov

The article explores an encoding and structural information processing approach using sparse bit vectors and fixed-length linear vectors. The following are presented: a discrete method of speculative stochastic dimensionality reduction of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Dmitriy Kashitsyn , Dmitriy Shabanov

First steps towards a mathematical theory of deep convolutional neural networks for feature extraction were made---for the continuous-time case---in Mallat, 2012, and Wiatowski and B\"olcskei, 2015. This paper considers the discrete case,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-09-02 Thomas Wiatowski , Michael Tschannen , Aleksandar Stanić , Philipp Grohs , Helmut Bölcskei