Relative intrinsic dimensionality is intrinsic to learning

Autor: Sutton, Oliver J., Zhou, Qinghua, Gorban, Alexander N., Tyukin, Ivan Y.
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Artificial Neural Networks and Machine Learning ICANN 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14254, pp 516-529. Springer, Cham
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-44207-0_43
Popis: High dimensional data can have a surprising property: pairs of data points may be easily separated from each other, or even from arbitrary subsets, with high probability using just simple linear classifiers. However, this is more of a rule of thumb than a reliable property as high dimensionality alone is neither necessary nor sufficient for successful learning. Here, we introduce a new notion of the intrinsic dimension of a data distribution, which precisely captures the separability properties of the data. For this intrinsic dimension, the rule of thumb above becomes a law: high intrinsic dimension guarantees highly separable data. We extend this notion to that of the relative intrinsic dimension of two data distributions, which we show provides both upper and lower bounds on the probability of successfully learning and generalising in a binary classification problem
Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures
Databáze: arXiv