On a Connection Between Maximum Variance Unfolding, Shortest Path Problems and IsoMap

Abstract

We present an equivalent formulation of the Maximum Variance Unfolding (MVU) problem in terms of distance matrices. This yields a novel interpretation of the MVU problem as a regularized version of the shortest path problem on a graph. This interpretation enables us to establish an asymptotic convergence result for the case that the underlying data are drawn from a Riemannian manifold which is isometric to a convex subset of Euclidean space.

Cite

Text

Paprotny and Garcke. "On a Connection Between Maximum Variance Unfolding, Shortest Path Problems and IsoMap." Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2012.

Markdown

[Paprotny and Garcke. "On a Connection Between Maximum Variance Unfolding, Shortest Path Problems and IsoMap." Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2012.](https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2012/paprotny2012aistats-connection/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{paprotny2012aistats-connection,
  title     = {{On a Connection Between Maximum Variance Unfolding, Shortest Path Problems and IsoMap}},
  author    = {Paprotny, Alexander and Garcke, Jochen},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  year      = {2012},
  pages     = {859-867},
  volume    = {22},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2012/paprotny2012aistats-connection/}
}