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Geodesic entropic graphs for dimension and entropy estimation in manifold learning Costa, J.A.; Hero, A.O. Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Volume 52, Issue 8, Aug. 2004 Page(s): 2210 - 2221 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TSP.2004.831130 Summary:In the manifold learning problem, one seeks to discover a smooth low dimensional surface, i.e., a manifold embedded in a higher dimensional linear vector space, based on a set of measured sample points on the surface. In this paper, we consider the closely related problem of estimating the manifold's intrinsic dimension and the intrinsic entropy of the sample points. Specifically, we view the sample points as realizations of an unknown multivariate density supported on an unknown smooth manifold. We introduce a novel geometric approach based on entropic graph methods. Although the theory presented applies to this general class of graphs, we focus on the geodesic-minimal-spanning-tree (GMST) to obtaining asymptotically consistent estimates of the manifold dimension and the Re´nyi α-entropy of the sample density on the manifold. The GMST approach is striking in its simplicity and does not require reconstruction of the manifold or estimation of the multivariate density of the samples. The GMST method simply constructs a minimal spanning tree (MST) sequence using a geodesic edge matrix and uses the overall lengths of the MSTs to simultaneously estimate manifold dimension and entropy. We illustrate the GMST approach on standard synthetic manifolds as well as on real data sets consisting of images of faces. » View citation and abstract



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