Title
An Almost Optimal Unrestricted Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transform
Abstract
The problems of random projections and sparse reconstruction have much in common and individually received much attention. Surprisingly, until now they progressed in parallel and remained mostly separate. Here, we employ new tools from probability in Banach spaces that were successfully used in the context of sparse reconstruction to advance on an open problem in random pojection. In particular, we generalize and use an intricate result by Rudelson and Vershynin for sparse reconstruction which uses Dudley's theorem for bounding Gaussian processes. Our main result states that any set of $N = \exp(\tilde{O}(n))$ real vectors in $n$ dimensional space can be linearly mapped to a space of dimension $k=O(\log N\polylog(n))$, while (1) preserving the pairwise distances among the vectors to within any constant distortion and (2) being able to apply the transformation in time $O(n\log n)$ on each vector. This improves on the best known $N = \exp(\tilde{O}(n^{1/2}))$ achieved by Ailon and Liberty and $N = \exp(\tilde{O}(n^{1/3}))$ by Ailon and Chazelle. The dependence in the distortion constant however is believed to be suboptimal and subject to further investigation. For constant distortion, this settles the open question posed by these authors up to a $\polylog(n)$ factor while considerably simplifying their constructions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2483699.2483701
ACM Transactions on Algorithms (TALG) - Special Issue on SODA'11
Keywords
Field
DocType
constant distortion,intricate result,open problem,johnson-lindenstrauss transform,almost optimal unrestricted fast,n log n,sparse reconstruction,n dimensional space,banach space,n polylog,open question,optimal unrestricted fast johnson-lindenstrauss,main result state,compressed sensing
Discrete mathematics,Binary logarithm,Combinatorics,Open problem,Upper and lower bounds,Banach space,Gaussian process,Time complexity,Distortion,Compressed sensing,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
9
3
1549-6325
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-61197-251-1
55
2.11
References 
Authors
17
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nir Ailon1111470.74
Edo Liberty239724.83