Abstract
This paper presents a spectral analysis for an alignment matrix that arises in reconstruction of a global coordinate system from local coordinate systems through alignment in manifold learning. Some characterizations of its eigenvalues and its null space as well as a lower bound for the smallest positive eigenvalue are given, which generalize earlier results of Li et al. (2007) [4] to include a more general situation that arises in alignments of local sections of different dimensions. Our results provide a theoretical understanding of the Local Tangent Space Alignment (LTSA) method (Zhang and Zha (2004) [12]) for nonlinear manifold learning and address some computational issues related to the method.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 2944-2962 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Linear Algebra and Its Applications |
Volume | 436 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 15 2012 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-0915062. Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (Q. Ye), [email protected] (W. Zhi).
Keywords
- Alignment matrix
- Dimensionality reduction
- Eigenvalue bound
- Manifold learning
- Smallest nonzero eigenvalue
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Algebra and Number Theory
- Numerical Analysis
- Geometry and Topology
- Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics