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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.13
URN: urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160219
URL: http://dagstuhl.sunsite.rwth-aachen.de/volltexte/2022/16021/
Bartal, Yair ;
Fandina, Ora Nova ;
Larsen, Kasper Green
Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Dimensionality Reduction for Practical Measures
Abstract
It is well known that the Johnson-Lindenstrauss dimensionality reduction method is optimal for worst case distortion. While in practice many other methods and heuristics are used, not much is known in terms of bounds on their performance. The question of whether the JL method is optimal for practical measures of distortion was recently raised in [Yair Bartal et al., 2019] (NeurIPS'19). They provided upper bounds on its quality for a wide range of practical measures and showed that indeed these are best possible in many cases. Yet, some of the most important cases, including the fundamental case of average distortion were left open. In particular, they show that the JL transform has 1+ε average distortion for embedding into k-dimensional Euclidean space, where k = O(1/ε²), and for more general q-norms of distortion, k = O(max{1/ε²,q/ε}), whereas tight lower bounds were established only for large values of q via reduction to the worst case.
In this paper we prove that these bounds are best possible for any dimensionality reduction method, for any 1 ≤ q ≤ O((log (2ε² n))/ε) and ε ≥ 1/(√n), where n is the size of the subset of Euclidean space.
Our results also imply that the JL method is optimal for various distortion measures commonly used in practice, such as stress, energy and relative error. We prove that if any of these measures is bounded by ε then k = Ω(1/ε²), for any ε ≥ 1/(√n), matching the upper bounds of [Yair Bartal et al., 2019] and extending their tightness results for the full range moment analysis.
Our results may indicate that the JL dimensionality reduction method should be considered more often in practical applications, and the bounds we provide for its quality should be served as a measure for comparison when evaluating the performance of other methods and heuristics.
BibTeX - Entry
@InProceedings{bartal_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.13,
author = {Bartal, Yair and Fandina, Ora Nova and Larsen, Kasper Green},
title = {{Optimality of the Johnson-Lindenstrauss Dimensionality Reduction for Practical Measures}},
booktitle = {38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022)},
pages = {13:1--13:16},
series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
ISBN = {978-3-95977-227-3},
ISSN = {1868-8969},
year = {2022},
volume = {224},
editor = {Goaoc, Xavier and Kerber, Michael},
publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
address = {Dagstuhl, Germany},
URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2022/16021},
URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-160219},
doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2022.13},
annote = {Keywords: average distortion, practical dimensionality reduction, JL transform}
}
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average distortion, practical dimensionality reduction, JL transform |
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38th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2022) |
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2022 |
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01.06.2022 |
