A study of dimensionality reduction as subspace data embedding linked by multidimensional scaling

Some state-of-the-art dimensionality reduction techniques are reviewed and investigated in this thesis. Dimensionality reduction techniques can be categorized inti two serving different purposes. The first category is to mitigate the computational load and to address the Curse-of-Dimensionality, and...

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Main Author: Wang, Wan Qiu
Other Authors: Chan Kap Luk
Format: Theses and Dissertations
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/42687
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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Summary:Some state-of-the-art dimensionality reduction techniques are reviewed and investigated in this thesis. Dimensionality reduction techniques can be categorized inti two serving different purposes. The first category is to mitigate the computational load and to address the Curse-of-Dimensionality, and the second category is to model the data spread or manifold. ISOMAP and LLE techniques are developed for the second purpose, and both of them are embedding techniques. By means of embedding, some data points in a higher dimensional space can be mapped into a lower dimensional space, provided that the pairwise distances are kept unchanged or within a small tolerant range. Some conven- tional category one techniques, such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), are developed from variance analysis, but they also can be interpreted as embedding techniques through links to the metric Multidimensional Scaling (MDS).