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We study the effect of Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms in various projective clustering problems, generalizing recent results which only applied to center-based clustering [MMR19]. We ask the general question: for a Euclidean optimization…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Moses Charikar , Erik Waingarten

Johnson--Lindenstrauss Transforms are powerful tools for reducing the dimensionality of data while preserving key characteristics of that data, and they have found use in many fields from machine learning to differential privacy and more.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Casper Benjamin Freksen

The \emph{Sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform} of Kane and Nelson (SODA 2012) provides a linear dimensionality-reducing map $A \in \mathbb{R}^{m \times u}$ in $\ell_2$ that preserves distances up to distortion of $1 + \varepsilon$ with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Jakob Bæk Tejs Houen , Mikkel Thorup

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

Binary embedding is a nonlinear dimension reduction methodology where high dimensional data are embedded into the Hamming cube while preserving the structure of the original space. Specifically, for an arbitrary $N$ distinct points in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-01-24 Xinyang Yi , Constantine Caramanis , Eric Price

Let $\varepsilon\in(0,1)$ and $X\subset\mathbb R^d$ be arbitrary with $|X|$ having size $n>1$. The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma states there exists $f:X\rightarrow\mathbb R^m$ with $m = O(\varepsilon^{-2}\log n)$ such that $$ \forall x\in X\…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-23 Shyam Narayanan , Jelani Nelson

For a set $X$ of $N$ points in $\mathbb{R}^D$, the Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma provides random linear maps that approximately preserve all pairwise distances in $X$ -- up to multiplicative error $(1\pm \epsilon)$ with high probability --…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-07-18 Michael P. Casey

We consider the problem of encoding a set of vectors into a minimal number of bits while preserving information on their Euclidean geometry. We show that this task can be accomplished by applying a Johnson-Lindenstrauss embedding and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Sjoerd Dirksen , Alexander Stollenwerk

Let $\mathcal{M}$ be a smooth $d$-dimensional submanifold of $\mathbb{R}^N$ with boundary that's equipped with the Euclidean (chordal) metric, and choose $m \leq N$. In this paper we consider the probability that a random matrix $A \in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Mark A. Iwen , Benjamin Schmidt , Arman Tavakoli

It is well known that the Johnson-Lindenstrauss dimensionality reduction method is optimal for worst case distortion. While in practice many other methods and heuristics are used, not much is known in terms of bounds on their performance.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Yair Bartal , Ora Nova Fandina , Kasper Green Larsen

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma states that there exist linear maps that project a set of points of a vector space into a space of much lower dimension such that the Euclidean distance between these points is approximately preserved. This…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-01-18 Pierre-Louis Poirion , Bruno F. Lourenço , Akiko Takeda

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

We give near-tight lower bounds for the sparsity required in several dimensionality reducing linear maps. First, consider the JL lemma which states that for any set of n vectors in R there is a matrix A in R^{m x d} with m = O(eps^{-2}log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2012-11-07 Jelani Nelson , Huy L. Nguyen

The Johnson-Lindenstrauss Lemma is a classic result which implies that any set of n real vectors can be compressed to O(log n) dimensions while only distorting pairwise Euclidean distances by a constant factor. Here we consider potential…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-10-27 Aram W. Harrow , Ashley Montanaro , Anthony J. Short

Binary embedding is the problem of mapping points from a high-dimensional space to a Hamming cube in lower dimension while preserving pairwise distances. An efficient way to accomplish this is to make use of fast embedding techniques…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-03-15 Samet Oymak

In 1984, Johnson and Lindenstrauss proved that any finite set of data in a high-dimensional space can be projected to a lower-dimensional space while preserving the pairwise Euclidean distance between points up to a bounded relative error.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Michael Burr , Shuhong Gao , Fiona Knoll

The Kronecker product is an important matrix operation with a wide range of applications in supporting fast linear transforms, including signal processing, graph theory, quantum computing and deep learning. In this work, we introduce a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Ruhui Jin , Tamara G. Kolda , Rachel Ward

Statistical distance measures have found wide applicability in information retrieval tasks that typically involve high dimensional datasets. In order to reduce the storage space and ensure efficient performance of queries, dimensionality…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2010-03-09 Arnab Bhattacharya , Purushottam Kar , Manjish Pal

This paper deals with two related problems, namely distance-preserving binary embeddings and quantization for compressed sensing . First, we propose fast methods to replace points from a subset $\mathcal{X} \subset \mathbb{R}^n$, associated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-19 Thang Huynh , Rayan Saab

For Euclidean space ($\ell_2$), there exists the powerful dimension reduction transform of Johnson and Lindenstrauss, with a host of known applications. Here, we consider the problem of dimension reduction for all $\ell_p$ spaces $1 \le p…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yair Bartal , Lee-Ad Gottlieb