Quantum-inspired Benchmark for Estimating Intrinsic Dimension

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Hauptverfasser: Das, Aritra, Iosue, Joseph T., Albert, Victor V.
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Veröffentlicht: 2025
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author Das, Aritra
Iosue, Joseph T.
Albert, Victor V.
author_facet Das, Aritra
Iosue, Joseph T.
Albert, Victor V.
contents Machine learning models can generalize well on real-world datasets. According to the manifold hypothesis, this is possible because datasets lie on a latent manifold with small intrinsic dimension (ID). There exist many methods for ID estimation (IDE), but their estimates vary substantially. This warrants benchmarking IDE methods on manifolds that are more complex than those in existing benchmarks. We propose a Quantum-Inspired Intrinsic-dimension Estimation (QuIIEst) benchmark consisting of infinite families of topologically non-trivial manifolds with known ID. Our benchmark stems from a quantum-optical method of embedding arbitrary homogeneous spaces while allowing for curvature modification and additive noise. The IDE methods tested were generally less accurate on QuIIEst manifolds than on existing benchmarks under identical resource allocation. We also observe minimal performance degradation with increasingly non-uniform curvature, underscoring the benchmark's inherent difficulty. As a result of independent interest, we perform IDE on the fractal Hofstadter's butterfly and identify which methods are capable of extracting the effective dimension of a space that is not a manifold.
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spellingShingle Quantum-inspired Benchmark for Estimating Intrinsic Dimension
Das, Aritra
Iosue, Joseph T.
Albert, Victor V.
Machine Learning
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Metric Geometry
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantum Physics
Machine learning models can generalize well on real-world datasets. According to the manifold hypothesis, this is possible because datasets lie on a latent manifold with small intrinsic dimension (ID). There exist many methods for ID estimation (IDE), but their estimates vary substantially. This warrants benchmarking IDE methods on manifolds that are more complex than those in existing benchmarks. We propose a Quantum-Inspired Intrinsic-dimension Estimation (QuIIEst) benchmark consisting of infinite families of topologically non-trivial manifolds with known ID. Our benchmark stems from a quantum-optical method of embedding arbitrary homogeneous spaces while allowing for curvature modification and additive noise. The IDE methods tested were generally less accurate on QuIIEst manifolds than on existing benchmarks under identical resource allocation. We also observe minimal performance degradation with increasingly non-uniform curvature, underscoring the benchmark's inherent difficulty. As a result of independent interest, we perform IDE on the fractal Hofstadter's butterfly and identify which methods are capable of extracting the effective dimension of a space that is not a manifold.
title Quantum-inspired Benchmark for Estimating Intrinsic Dimension
topic Machine Learning
Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Metric Geometry
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Quantum Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01335