Nested Barycentric Coordinate System as an Explicit Feature mAP

Abstract

We introduce a new embedding technique based on barycentric coordinate system. We show that our embedding can be used to transforms the problem of polytope approximation into that of finding a linear classifier in a higher (but nevertheless quite sparse) dimensional representation. This embedding in effect maps a piecewise linear function into a single linear function, and allows us to invoke well-known algorithms for the latter problem to solve the former. We demonstrate that our embedding has applications to the problems of approximating separating polytopes – in fact, it can approximate any convex body and multiple convex bodies – as well as to classification by separating polytopes and piecewise linear regression.

Cite

Text

Gottlieb et al. "Nested Barycentric Coordinate System as an Explicit Feature mAP." Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2021.

Markdown

[Gottlieb et al. "Nested Barycentric Coordinate System as an Explicit Feature mAP." Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2021.](https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2021/gottlieb2021aistats-nested/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{gottlieb2021aistats-nested,
  title     = {{Nested Barycentric Coordinate System as an Explicit Feature mAP}},
  author    = {Gottlieb, Lee-Ad and Kaufman, Eran and Kontorovich, Aryeh and Nivasch, Gabriel and Pele, Ofir},
  booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
  year      = {2021},
  pages     = {766-774},
  volume    = {130},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2021/gottlieb2021aistats-nested/}
}