Compressive Mahalanobis Metric Learning Adapts to Intrinsic Dimension

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Autori principali: Palias, Efstratios, Kabán, Ata
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author Palias, Efstratios
Kabán, Ata
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Kabán, Ata
contents Metric learning aims at finding a suitable distance metric over the input space, to improve the performance of distance-based learning algorithms. In high-dimensional settings, it can also serve as dimensionality reduction by imposing a low-rank restriction to the learnt metric. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning a Mahalanobis metric, and instead of training a low-rank metric on high-dimensional data, we use a randomly compressed version of the data to train a full-rank metric in this reduced feature space. We give theoretical guarantees on the error for Mahalanobis metric learning, which depend on the stable dimension of the data support, but not on the ambient dimension. Our bounds make no assumptions aside from i.i.d. data sampling from a bounded support, and automatically tighten when benign geometrical structures are present. An important ingredient is an extension of Gordon's theorem, which may be of independent interest. We also corroborate our findings by numerical experiments.
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spellingShingle Compressive Mahalanobis Metric Learning Adapts to Intrinsic Dimension
Palias, Efstratios
Kabán, Ata
Machine Learning
Metric learning aims at finding a suitable distance metric over the input space, to improve the performance of distance-based learning algorithms. In high-dimensional settings, it can also serve as dimensionality reduction by imposing a low-rank restriction to the learnt metric. In this paper, we consider the problem of learning a Mahalanobis metric, and instead of training a low-rank metric on high-dimensional data, we use a randomly compressed version of the data to train a full-rank metric in this reduced feature space. We give theoretical guarantees on the error for Mahalanobis metric learning, which depend on the stable dimension of the data support, but not on the ambient dimension. Our bounds make no assumptions aside from i.i.d. data sampling from a bounded support, and automatically tighten when benign geometrical structures are present. An important ingredient is an extension of Gordon's theorem, which may be of independent interest. We also corroborate our findings by numerical experiments.
title Compressive Mahalanobis Metric Learning Adapts to Intrinsic Dimension
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.05751