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Time for dithering: fast and quantized random embeddings via the restricted isometry property
Recently, many works have focused on the characterization of non-linear
dimensionality reduction methods obtained by quantizing linear embeddings,
e.g., to reach fast processing time, efficient data compression procedures,
novel geometry-preserving embeddings or to estimate the information/bits stored
in this reduced data representation. In this work, we prove that many linear
maps known to respect the restricted isometry property (RIP) can induce a
quantized random embedding with controllable multiplicative and additive
distortions with respect to the pairwise distances of the data points beings
considered. In other words, linear matrices having fast matrix-vector
multiplication algorithms (e.g., based on partial Fourier ensembles or on the
adjacency matrix of unbalanced expanders) can be readily used in the definition
of fast quantized embeddings with small distortions. This implication is made
possible by applying right after the linear map an additive and random "dither"
that stabilizes the impact of the uniform scalar quantization operator applied
afterwards. For different categories of RIP matrices, i.e., for different
linear embeddings of a metric space
in with , we derive upper bounds on the
additive distortion induced by quantization, showing that it decays either when
the embedding dimension increases or when the distance of a pair of
embedded vectors in decreases. Finally, we develop a novel
"bi-dithered" quantization scheme, which allows for a reduced distortion that
decreases when the embedding dimension grows and independently of the
considered pair of vectors.Comment: Keywords: random projections, non-linear embeddings, quantization,
dither, restricted isometry property, dimensionality reduction, compressive
sensing, low-complexity signal models, fast and structured sensing matrices,
quantized rank-one projections (31 pages
Sparser Johnson-Lindenstrauss Transforms
We give two different and simple constructions for dimensionality reduction
in via linear mappings that are sparse: only an
-fraction of entries in each column of our embedding matrices
are non-zero to achieve distortion with high probability, while
still achieving the asymptotically optimal number of rows. These are the first
constructions to provide subconstant sparsity for all values of parameters,
improving upon previous works of Achlioptas (JCSS 2003) and Dasgupta, Kumar,
and Sarl\'{o}s (STOC 2010). Such distributions can be used to speed up
applications where dimensionality reduction is used.Comment: v6: journal version, minor changes, added Remark 23; v5: modified
abstract, fixed typos, added open problem section; v4: simplified section 4
by giving 1 analysis that covers both constructions; v3: proof of Theorem 25
in v2 was written incorrectly, now fixed; v2: Added another construction
achieving same upper bound, and added proof of near-tight lower bound for DKS
schem
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