Title Nonlinear dimensionality reduction using circuit models
Authors Fredrik Andersson, Jens Nilsson
Alternative Location http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/1..., Restricted Access
Publication Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Year 2005
Volume 3540
Pages 950 - 959
Document type Conference paper
Conference name 14th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2005
Conference Date Jun 19-22 2005
Conference Location Joensuu, Finland
Status Published
Quality controlled Yes
Language eng
Publisher Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
Abstract English The problem addressed in nonlinear dimensionality reduction, is to find lower dimensional configurations of high dimensional data, thereby revealing underlying structure. One popular method in this regard is the Isomap algorithm, where local information is used to find approximate geodesic distances. From such distance estimations, lower dimensional representations, accurate on a global scale, are obtained by multidimensional scaling. The property of global approximation sets Isomap in contrast to many competing methods, which approximate only locally. A serious drawback of Isomap is that it is topologically instable, i.e., that incorrectly chosen algorithm parameters or perturbations of data may abruptly alter the resulting configurations. To handle this problem, we propose new methods for more robust approximation of the geodesic distances. This is done using a viewpoint of electric circuits. The robustness is validated by experiments. By such an approach we achieve both the stability of local methods and the global approximation property of global methods.
Keywords Nonlinear dimensionality reduction, Global methods, Isomap, Geodesic distances,
ISBN/ISSN/Other ISSN: 0302-9743

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