Inferring manifolds using Gaussian processes

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Dunson, David B, Wu, Nan
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2021
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866918302573395968
author Dunson, David B
Wu, Nan
author_facet Dunson, David B
Wu, Nan
contents It is often of interest to infer lower-dimensional structure underlying complex data. As a flexible class of non-linear structures, it is common to focus on Riemannian manifolds. Most existing manifold learning algorithms replace the original data with lower-dimensional coordinates without providing an estimate of the manifold or using the manifold to denoise the original data. This article proposes a new methodology to address these problems, allowing interpolation of the estimated manifold between the fitted data points. The proposed approach is motivated by the novel theoretical properties of local covariance matrices constructed from samples near a manifold. Our results enable us to turn a global manifold reconstruction problem into a local regression problem, allowing for the application of Gaussian processes for probabilistic manifold reconstruction. In addition to the theory justifying our methodology, we provide simulated and real data examples to illustrate the performance.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2110_07478
institution arXiv
publishDate 2021
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Inferring manifolds using Gaussian processes
Dunson, David B
Wu, Nan
Machine Learning
It is often of interest to infer lower-dimensional structure underlying complex data. As a flexible class of non-linear structures, it is common to focus on Riemannian manifolds. Most existing manifold learning algorithms replace the original data with lower-dimensional coordinates without providing an estimate of the manifold or using the manifold to denoise the original data. This article proposes a new methodology to address these problems, allowing interpolation of the estimated manifold between the fitted data points. The proposed approach is motivated by the novel theoretical properties of local covariance matrices constructed from samples near a manifold. Our results enable us to turn a global manifold reconstruction problem into a local regression problem, allowing for the application of Gaussian processes for probabilistic manifold reconstruction. In addition to the theory justifying our methodology, we provide simulated and real data examples to illustrate the performance.
title Inferring manifolds using Gaussian processes
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.07478