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Record Nr.

UNINA9910438057103321

Autore

Kramer Oliver

Titolo

Dimensionality reduction with unsupervised nearest neighbors / / Oliver Kramer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht, : Springer, 2013

ISBN

3-642-38652-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xviii, 130 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Intelligent systems reference library ; ; 51

Disciplina

006.31

519.5/36

Soggetti

Dimensions

Data mining

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN: 1868-4394."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part I Foundations -- Part II Unsupervised Nearest Neighbors -- Part III Conclusions.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is devoted to a novel approach for dimensionality reduction based on the famous nearest neighbor method that is a powerful classification and regression approach. It starts with an introduction to machine learning concepts and a real-world application from the energy domain. Then, unsupervised nearest neighbors (UNN) is introduced as efficient iterative method for dimensionality reduction. Various UNN models are developed step by step, reaching from a simple iterative strategy for discrete latent spaces to a stochastic kernel-based algorithm for learning submanifolds with independent parameterizations. Extensions that allow the embedding of incomplete and noisy patterns are introduced. Various optimization approaches are compared, from evolutionary to swarm-based heuristics. Experimental comparisons to related methodologies taking into account artificial test data sets and also real-world data demonstrate the behavior of UNN in practical scenarios. The book contains numerous color figures to illustrate the introduced concepts and to highlight the experimental results.  .