Title
Dimensionality Reduction and Similarity Computation by Inner-Product Approximations
Abstract
As databases increasingly integrate different types of information such as multimedia, spatial, time-series, and scientific data, it becomes necessary to support efficient retrieval of multidimensional data. Both the dimensionality and the amount of data that needs to be processed are increasing rapidly. Reducing the dimension of the feature vectors to enhance the performance of the underlying technique is a popular solution to the infamous curse of dimensionality. We expect the techniques to have good quality of distance measures when the similarity distance between two feature vectors is approximated by some notion of distance between two lower-dimensional transformed vectors. Thus, it is desirable to develop techniques resulting in accurate approximations to the original similarity distance. In this paper, we investigate dimensionality reduction techniques that directly target minimizing the errors made in the approximations. In particular, we develop dynamic techniques for efficient and accurate approximation of similarity evaluations between high-dimensional vectors based on inner-product approximations. Inner-product, by itself, is used as a distance measure in a wide area of applications such as document databases. A first order approximation to the inner-product is obtained from the Cauchy-Schwarz inequality. We extend this idea to higher order power symmetric functions of the multidimensional points. We show how to compute fixed coefficients that work as universal weights based on the moments of the probability density function of the data set. We also develop a dynamic model to compute the universal coefficients for data sets whose distribution is not known. Our experiments on synthetic and real data sets show that the similarity between two objects in high-dimensional space can be accurately approximated by a significantly lower-dimensional representation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1109/TKDE.2004.9
IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng.
Keywords
Field
DocType
distributed databases,similarity search,higher order,probability density function,curse of dimensionality,inner product,fourier transforms,information retrieval,multidimensional systems,first order,cauchy schwarz inequality,symmetric function,statistical distributions,feature vector,time series,scientific data,dimensionality reduction,high dimensional data
Data mining,Feature vector,Clustering high-dimensional data,Dimensionality reduction,Computer science,Curse of dimensionality,Theoretical computer science,Probability distribution,Nearest neighbor search,Distance measures,Multidimensional systems
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
16
6
1041-4347
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
25
1.19
27
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ömer Egecioglu121524.76
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu2135289.79
Ümit Y. Ogras320315.03