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Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a popular dimensionality reduction techniques that has been widely used for network visualization and cooperative localization. However, the traditional stress minimization formulation of MDS necessitates…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-12-22 Ketan Rajawat , Sandeep Kumar

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 present a novel view of nonlinear manifold learning using derivative-free optimization techniques. Specifically, we propose an extension of the classical multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) method, where instead of performing gradient…

Classical multidimensional scaling is an important dimension reduction technique. Yet few theoretical results characterizing its statistical performance exist. This paper provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the quality of…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-07-09 Anna Little , Yuying Xie , Qiang Sun

Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) is a classical technique for embedding data in low dimensions, still in widespread use today. Originally introduced in the 1950's, MDS was not designed with high-dimensional data in mind; while it remains…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Erez Peterfreund , Matan Gavish

For a given metric measure space $(X,d,\mu)$ we consider finite samples of points, calculate the matrix of distances between them and then reconstruct the points in some finite-dimensional space using the multidimensional scaling (MDS)…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-02 Alexey Kroshnin , Eugene Stepanov , Dario Trevisan

Classical multidimensional scaling is a widely used method in dimensionality reduction and manifold learning. The method takes in a dissimilarity matrix and outputs a low-dimensional configuration matrix based on a spectral decomposition.…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-05-15 Gongkai Li , Minh Tang , Nichlas Charon , Carey E Priebe

Multidimensional scaling (MDS) is a widely used approach to representing high-dimensional, dependent data. MDS works by assigning each observation a location on a low-dimensional geometric manifold, with distance on the manifold…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-08-16 Bolun Liu , Shane Lubold , Adrian E. Raftery , Tyler H. McCormick

In this work, a unified framework for gradient-free Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) based on Coordinate Search (CS) is proposed. This family of algorithms is an instance of General Pattern Search (GPS) methods which avoid the explicit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Efthymios Tzinis

Leveraging the intrinsic symmetries in data for clear and efficient analysis is an important theme in signal processing and other data-driven sciences. A basic example of this is the ubiquity of the discrete Fourier transform which arises…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Mark Blumstein , Henry Kvinge

Euclidean Distance Matrix (EDM), which consists of pairwise squared Euclidean distances of a given point configuration, finds many applications in modern machine learning. This paper considers the setting where only a set of anchor nodes is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Chandra Kundu , Abiy Tasissa , HanQin Cai

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

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

Dimension-varying linear systems are investigated. First, a dimension-free state space is proposed. A cross dimensional distance is constructed to glue vectors of different dimensions together to form a cross-dimensional topological space.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Daizhan Cheng , Zhenhui Xu , Tielong Shen

We develop a formal statistical framework for classical multidimensional scaling (CMDS) applied to noisy dissimilarity data. We establish distributional convergence results for the embeddings produced by CMDS for various noise models, which…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Siddharth Vishwanath , Ery Arias-Castro

Multidimensional fitting (MDF) method is a multivariate data analysis method recently developed and based on the fitting of distances. Two matrices are available: one contains the coordinates of the points and the second contains the…

Deep-feature-based perceptual similarity models have demonstrated strong alignment with human visual perception in Image Quality Assessment (IQA). However, most existing approaches operate at a single spatial scale, implicitly assuming that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Danling Kang , Xue-Hua Chen , Bin Liu , Keke Zhang , Weiling Chen , Tiesong Zhao

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

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

We consider the robust multi-dimensional scaling (RMDS) problem in this paper. The goal is to localize point locations from pairwise distances that may be corrupted by outliers. Inspired by classic MDS theories, and nonconvex works for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-01-07 Tong Deng , Tianming Wang