smile.manifold — org.clojars.haifengl/smile 3.1.1

Manifold Learning

isomap clj

(isomap data k)

(isomap data k d c-isomap)

Isometric feature mapping.

Isomap is a widely used low-dimensional embedding methods, where geodesic distances on a weighted graph are incorporated with the classical multidimensional scaling. Isomap is used for computing a quasi-isometric, low-dimensional embedding of a set of high-dimensional data points. Isomap is highly efficient and generally applicable to a broad range of data sources and dimensionalities.

To be specific, the classical MDS performs low-dimensional embedding based on the pairwise distance between data points, which is generally measured using straight-line Euclidean distance. Isomap is distinguished by its use of the geodesic distance induced by a neighborhood graph embedded in the classical scaling. This is done to incorporate manifold structure in the resulting embedding. Isomap defines the geodesic distance to be the sum of edge weights along the shortest path between two nodes. The top n eigenvectors of the geodesic distance matrix, represent the coordinates in the new n-dimensional Euclidean space.

The connectivity of each data point in the neighborhood graph is defined as its nearest k Euclidean neighbors in the high-dimensional space. This step is vulnerable to 'short-circuit errors' if k is too large with respect to the manifold structure or if noise in the data moves the points slightly off the manifold. Even a single short-circuit error can alter many entries in the geodesic distance matrix, which in turn can lead to a drastically different (and incorrect) low-dimensional embedding. Conversely, if k is too small, the neighborhood graph may become too sparse to approximate geodesic paths accurately.

This class implements C-Isomap that involves magnifying the regions of high density and shrink the regions of low density of data points in the manifold. Edge weights that are maximized in Multi-Dimensional Scaling(MDS) are modified, with everything else remaining unaffected.

data is the data set. d is the dimension of the manifold. k is the number of nearest neighbors. If c-isomap is true, run C-Isomap algorithm. Otherwise standard algorithm.

isomds clj

(isomds proximity k)

(isomds proximity k tol max-iter)

Kruskal's nonmetric MDS.

In non-metric MDS, only the rank order of entries in the proximity matrix (not the actual dissimilarities) is assumed to contain the significant information. Hence, the distances of the final configuration should as far as possible be in the same rank order as the original data. Note that a perfect ordinal re-scaling of the data into distances is usually not possible. The relationship is typically found using isotonic regression.

proximity is the non-negative proximity matrix of dissimilarities. The diagonal should be zero and all other elements should be positive and symmetric. k is the dimension of the projection. tol is the tolerance for stopping iterations. max-iter is the maximum number of iterations.

laplacian clj

(laplacian data k)

(laplacian data k d t)

Laplacian Eigenmap.

Using the notion of the Laplacian of the nearest neighbor adjacency graph, Laplacian Eigenmap compute a low dimensional representation of the dataset that optimally preserves local neighborhood information in a certain sense. The representation map generated by the algorithm may be viewed as a discrete approximation to a continuous map that naturally arises from the geometry of the manifold.

The locality preserving character of the Laplacian Eigenmap algorithm makes it relatively insensitive to outliers and noise. It is also not prone to 'short circuiting' as only the local distances are used.

data is the data set. d is the dimension of the manifold. k is the number of nearest neighbors. t is the smooth/width parameter of heat kernel e^{-||x-y||² / t}. Non-positive value means discrete weights.

lle clj

(lle data k)

(lle data k d)

Locally Linear Embedding.

LLE has several advantages over Isomap, including faster optimization when implemented to take advantage of sparse matrix algorithms, and better results with many problems. LLE also begins by finding a set of the nearest neighbors of each point. It then computes a set of weights for each point that best describe the point as a linear combination of its neighbors. Finally, it uses an eigenvector-based optimization technique to find the low-dimensional embedding of points, such that each point is still described with the same linear combination of its neighbors. LLE tends to handle non-uniform sample densities poorly because there is no fixed unit to prevent the weights from drifting as various regions differ in sample densities.

data is the data set. d is the dimension of the manifold. k is the number of nearest neighbors.

mds clj

(mds proximity k)

(mds proximity k positive)

Classical multidimensional scaling, also known as principal coordinates analysis.

Given a matrix of dissimilarities (e.g. pairwise distances), MDS finds a set of points in low dimensional space that well-approximates the dissimilarities in A. We are not restricted to using a Euclidean distance metric. However, when Euclidean distances are used MDS is equivalent to PCA.

proximity is the non-negative proximity matrix of dissimilarities. The diagonal should be zero and all other elements should be positive and symmetric. For pairwise distances matrix, it should be just the plain distance, not squared.

k is the dimension of the projection.

If positive is true, estimate an appropriate constant to be added to all the dissimilarities, apart from the self-dissimilarities, that makes the learning matrix positive semi-definite. The other formulation of the additive constant problem is as follows. If the proximity is measured in an interval scale, where there is no natural origin, then there is not a sympathy of the dissimilarities to the distances in the Euclidean space used to represent the objects. In this case, we can estimate a constant c such that proximity + c may be taken as ratio data, and also possibly to minimize the dimensionality of the Euclidean space required for representing the objects.

sammon clj

(sammon proximity k)

(sammon proximity k lambda tol step-tol max-iter)

Sammon's mapping.

The Sammon's mapping is an iterative technique for making interpoint distances in the low-dimensional projection as close as possible to the interpoint distances in the high-dimensional object. Two points close together in the high-dimensional space should appear close together in the projection, while two points far apart in the high dimensional space should appear far apart in the projection. The Sammon's mapping is a special case of metric least-square multidimensional scaling.

Ideally when we project from a high dimensional space to a low dimensional space the image would be geometrically congruent to the original figure. This is called an isometric projection. Unfortunately it is rarely possible to isometrically project objects down into lower dimensional spaces. Instead of trying to achieve equality between corresponding inter-point distances we can minimize the difference between corresponding inter-point distances. This is one goal of the Sammon's mapping algorithm. A second goal of the Sammon's mapping algorithm is to preserve the topology as best as possible by giving greater emphasize to smaller interpoint distances. The Sammon's mapping algorithm has the advantage that whenever it is possible to isometrically project an object into a lower dimensional space it will be isometrically projected into the lower dimensional space. But whenever an object cannot be projected down isometrically the Sammon's mapping projects it down to reduce the distortion in interpoint distances and to limit the change in the topology of the object.

The projection cannot be solved in a closed form and may be found by an iterative algorithm such as gradient descent suggested by Sammon. Kohonen also provides a heuristic that is simple and works reasonably well.

proximity the non-negative proximity matrix of dissimilarities. The diagonal should be zero and all other elements should be positive and symmetric.kis the dimension of the projection.lambdais the initial value of the step size constant in diagonal Newton method.tolis the tolerance for stopping iterations.step-tolis the tolerance on step size.max-iter` is the maximum number of iterations.

tsne clj

(tsne data)

(tsne data d perplexity eta iterations)

t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding.

t-SNE is a nonlinear dimensionality reduction technique that is particularly well suited for embedding high-dimensional data into a space of two or three dimensions, which can then be visualized in a scatter plot. Specifically, it models each high-dimensional object by a two- or three-dimensional point in such a way that similar objects are modeled by nearby points and dissimilar objects are modeled by distant points.

X is input data. If X is a square matrix, it is assumed to be the squared distance/dissimilarity matrix. d is the dimension of the manifold. perplexity is the perplexity of the conditional distribution. eta is the learning rate. iterations is the number of iterations.

umap clj

(umap data)

(umap data distance)

(umap data
      k
      d
      iterations
      learningRate
      minDist
      spread
      negativeSamples
      repulsionStrength)

(umap data
      distance
      k
      d
      iterations
      learningRate
      minDist
      spread
      negativeSamples
      repulsionStrength)

Unnifold Approximation and Projection.

UMAP is a dimension reduction technique that can be used for visualization similarly to t-SNE, but also for general non-linear dimension reduction. The algorithm is founded on three assumptions about the data:

• The data is uniformly distributed on a Riemannian manifold;
• The Riemannian metric is locally constant (or can be approximated as such);
• The manifold is locally connected.

From these assumptions it is possible to model the manifold with a fuzzy topological structure. The embedding is found by searching for a low dimensional projection of the data that has the closest possible equivalent fuzzy topological structure.

data is the input data. distance is the distance measure. k is of k-nearest neighbors. Larger values result in more global views of the manifold, while smaller values result in more local data being preserved. Generally in the range 2 to 100. d is the target embedding dimensions. defaults to 2 to provide easy visualization, but can reasonably be set to any integer value in the range 2 to 100. iterations is the number of iterations to optimize the low-dimensional representation. Larger values result in more accurate embedding. Muse be at least 10. Choose wise value based on the size of the input data, e.g, 200 for large data (1000+ samples), 500 for small. learningRate is the initial learning rate for the embedding optimization, default 1. minDist is the desired separation between close points in the embedding space. Smaller values will result in a more clustered/clumped embedding where nearby points on the manifold are drawn closer together, while larger values will result on a more even disperse of points. The value should be set no-greater than and relative to the spread value, which determines the scale at which embedded points will be spread out. default 0.1. spread is the effective scale of embedded points. In combination with minDist, this determines how clustered/clumped the embedded points are. default 1.0. negativeSamples is the number of negative samples to select per positive sample in the optimization process. Increasing this value will result in greater repulsive force being applied, greater optimization cost, but slightly more accuracy, default 5. repulsionStrength is the weight applied to negative samples in low dimensional embedding optimization. Values higher than one will result in greater weight being given to negative samples, default 1.0.