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This paper reconsiders common benchmarking approaches to nearest neighbor search. It is shown that the concept of local intrinsic dimensionality (LID) allows to choose query sets of a wide range of difficulty for real-world datasets.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-18 Martin Aumüller , Matteo Ceccarello

The local intrinsic dimension (LID) of data is a fundamental quantity in signal processing and learning theory, but quantifying the LID of high-dimensional, complex data has been a historically challenging task. Recent works have discovered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Eric Yeats , Aaron Jacobson , Darryl Hannan , Yiran Jia , Timothy Doster , Henry Kvinge , Scott Mahan

We propose an axiomatic approach to the concept of an intrinsic dimension of a dataset, based on a viewpoint of geometry of high-dimensional structures. Our first axiom postulates that high values of dimension be indicative of the presence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Vladimir Pestov

The ongoing exponential rise in recording capacity calls for new approaches for analysing and interpreting neural data. Effective dimensionality has emerged as an important property of neural activity across populations of neurons, yet…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-08-30 Mehrdad Jazayeri , Srdjan Ostojic

Disobeying the classical wisdom of statistical learning theory, modern deep neural networks generalize well even though they typically contain millions of parameters. Recently, it has been shown that the trajectories of iterative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Tolga Birdal , Aaron Lou , Leonidas Guibas , Umut Şimşekli

Within the context of representation learning for Earth observation, geographic Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) embed low-dimensional location inputs (longitude, latitude) into high-dimensional embeddings, through models trained on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Arjun Rao , Marc Rußwurm , Konstantin Klemmer , Esther Rolf

Most of the existing methods for estimating the local intrinsic dimension of a data distribution do not scale well to high-dimensional data. Many of them rely on a non-parametric nearest neighbors approach which suffers from the curse of…

In the last decades the estimation of the intrinsic dimensionality of a dataset has gained considerable importance. Despite the great deal of research work devoted to this task, most of the proposed solutions prove to be unreliable when the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-19 Claudio Ceruti , Simone Bassis , Alessandro Rozza , Gabriele Lombardi , Elena Casiraghi , Paola Campadelli

It is a standard assumption that datasets in high dimension have an internal structure which means that they in fact lie on, or near, subsets of a lower dimension. In many instances it is important to understand the real dimension of the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-07-21 James A. D. Binnie , Paweł Dłotko , John Harvey , Jakub Malinowski , Ka Man Yim

Embedding spaces contain interpretable dimensions indicating gender, formality in style, or even object properties. This has been observed multiple times. Such interpretable dimensions are becoming valuable tools in different areas of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Katrin Erk , Marianna Apidianaki

Modern large-scale datasets are frequently said to be high-dimensional. However, their data point clouds frequently possess structures, significantly decreasing their intrinsic dimensionality (ID) due to the presence of clusters, points…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Luca Albergante , Jonathan Bac , Andrei Zinovyev

Many recently trained neural networks employ large numbers of parameters to achieve good performance. One may intuitively use the number of parameters required as a rough gauge of the difficulty of a problem. But how accurate are such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Chunyuan Li , Heerad Farkhoor , Rosanne Liu , Jason Yosinski

In real-world data, information is stored in extremely large feature vectors. These variables are typically correlated due to complex interactions involving many features simultaneously. Such correlations qualitatively correspond to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Santiago Acevedo , Alex Rodriguez , Alessandro Laio

The manifold hypothesis suggests that high-dimensional data often lie on or near a low-dimensional manifold. Estimating the dimension of this manifold is essential for leveraging its structure, yet existing work on dimension estimation is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Zelong Bi , Pierre Lafaye de Micheaux

The ability to collect and analyze large amounts of data is a growing problem within the scientific community. The growing gap between data and users calls for innovative tools that address the challenges faced by big data volume, velocity…

Databases · Computer Science 2016-08-01 Vijay Gadepally , Jeremy Kepner

As organizations face the challenges of processing exponentially growing data volumes, their reliance on analytics to unlock value from this data has intensified. However, the intricacies of big data, such as its extensive feature sets,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Joshua Holstein , Philipp Spitzer , Marieke Hoell , Michael Vössing , Niklas Kühl

Data are not only ubiquitous in society, but are increasingly complex both in size and dimensionality. Dimension reduction offers researchers and scholars the ability to make such complex, high dimensional data spaces simpler and more…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-15 Philip D. Waggoner

In recent years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are used in a large number of tasks in computer vision. One of them is object detection for autonomous driving. Although CNNs are used widely in many areas, what happens inside the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Ajay Chawda , Axel Vierling , Karsten Berns

In this study, we measure the Intrinsic Dimension (ID) of token embedding to estimate the intrinsic dimensions of the manifolds spanned by the representations, so as to evaluate their redundancy quantitatively compared to their extrinsic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Takuya Kataiwa , Cho Hakaze , Tetsushi Ohki

The size of datasets has been increasing rapidly both in terms of number of variables and number of events. As a result, the empty space phenomenon and the curse of dimensionality complicate the extraction of useful information. But, in…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-05-07 Jean Golay , Mikhail Kanevski