Augmented embedding of dissimilarity data into (pseudo-)Euclidean spaces

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Abstract

Pairwiseproximitiesdescribethepropertiesofobjectsintermsoftheirsimilarities.Byusingdi¿erentdistance-basedfunctionsonemayencodedi¿erentcharacteristicsofagivenproblem.However,tousetheframeworkofstatisticalpatternrecognitionsomevectorrepresentationshouldbeconstructed.Oneofthesimplestwaystodothatistode¿neanisometricembeddingtosomevectorspace.Inthiswork,wewillfocusonalinearembeddingintoa(pseudo-)Euclideanspace.
Thisisusuallywellde¿nedfortrainingdata.Someinadequacy,however,appearswhenprojectingnewortestobjectsduetotheresultingprojectionerrors.Inthispaperweproposeanaugmentedembeddingalgorithmthatenlargesthedimensionalityofthespacesuchthattheresultingprojectionerrorvanishes.Ourpreliminaryresultsshowthatitmayleadtoabetterclassi¿cationaccuracy,especiallyfordatawithhighintrinsicdimensionality.