On using Toeplitz and circulant matrices for Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms

From MaRDI portal
Publication:5136251




Abstract: The Johnson-Lindenstrauss lemma is one of the corner stone results in dimensionality reduction. It says that given N, for any set of N vectors XsubsetmathbbRn, there exists a mapping f:XomathbbRm such that f(X) preserves all pairwise distances between vectors in X to within (1pmvarepsilon) if m=O(varepsilon2lgN). Much effort has gone into developing fast embedding algorithms, with the Fast Johnson-Lindenstrauss transform of Ailon and Chazelle being one of the most well-known techniques. The current fastest algorithm that yields the optimal m=O(varepsilon2lgN) dimensions has an embedding time of O(nlgn+varepsilon2lg3N). An exciting approach towards improving this, due to Hinrichs and Vyb'iral, is to use a random mimesn Toeplitz matrix for the embedding. Using Fast Fourier Transform, the embedding of a vector can then be computed in O(nlgm) time. The big question is of course whether m=O(varepsilon2lgN) dimensions suffice for this technique. If so, this would end a decades long quest to obtain faster and faster Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms. The current best analysis of the embedding of Hinrichs and Vyb'iral shows that m=O(varepsilon2lg2N) dimensions suffices. The main result of this paper, is a proof that this analysis unfortunately cannot be tightened any further, i.e., there exists a set of N vectors requiring m=Omega(varepsilon2lg2N) for the Toeplitz approach to work.









This page was built for publication: On using Toeplitz and circulant matrices for Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5136251)