NII Technical Report (NII-2014-001E)

Title Estimating Continuous Intrinsic Dimensionality
Authors Laurent Amsaleg, Oussama Chelly, Teddy Furon, Stephane Girard, Michael E. Houle, and Michael Nett
Abstract This paper is concerned with the estimation of continuous intrinsic dimension (ID), a measure of intrinsic dimensionality recently proposed by Houle. Continuous ID can be regarded as an extension of Karger and Ruhl's expansion dimension to a statistical setting in which the distribution of distances to a query point is modeled in terms of a continuous random variable. This form of intrinsic dimensionality is particularly useful in search, classification, clustering, and other contexts in machine learning, databases, and data mining, as it has been shown to be equivalent to a measure of the discriminative power of similarity functions. Several estimators of continuous ID are proposed and analyzed based on extreme value theory, using maximum likelihood estimation, the method of moments, probability weighted moments, and regularly varying functions. An experimental evaluation is also provided, using both real and artificial data.
Language English
Published Mar 26, 2014
Pages 13p



ISSN:1346-5597
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