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Random Projections

Random Projections

by Johnson-Lidenstrauss Lemma (see Achlioptas2003) know that

  • we can always embed $N$ points into a subspace with dimensionality $\log N$
  • with little distortion on pair-wise distances.
  • so let’s do a very simple embedding
  • pick up a random subspace $S$ and project all data on $S$

References

  • Achlioptas, Dimitris. “Database-friendly random projections: Johnson-Lindenstrauss with binary coins.” 2003. [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022000003000254]