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Outline Motivation Examples Theoretical Problems Results Perspectives

Manifold Learning

Olivier Bousquet

Curves and Surfaces, Avignon, 2006

Olivier Bousquet Manifold Learning

1 Motivation

2 Examples

3 Theoretical Problems

4 Results

5 Perspectives

Acknowledgements

Most of the work presented here has been done by or in collaborationwith

Ulrike von Luxburg

Matthias Hein (special thanks for the pictures)

Mikhail Belkin

Jean-Yves Audibert

Olivier Chapelle

Learning

Machine Learning: develop algorithms to automatically extract”patterns” or ”regularities” from data (generalization)

Typical tasks

Clustering: Find groups of similar pointsDimensionality reduction: Project points in a lowerdimensional space while preserving structureSemi-supervised: Given labelled and unlabelled points, build alabelling functionSupervised: Given labelled points, build a labelling function

All these tasks are not well-defined

Learning

Typical tasks

Learning

Typical tasks

Learning

Typical tasks

Learning

Typical tasks

Learning

Typical tasks

Clustering

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Identify the two ”groups”

Dimensionality Reduction

Objects in R4096 ?But only 3 parameters: 2 angles and 1 for illumation. They span a3-dimensional submanifold of R4096!

Dimensionality Reduction

Objects in R4096 ?But only 3 parameters: 2 angles and 1 for illumation. They span a3-dimensional submanifold of R4096!

Semi-supervised Learning

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Assign a label to the black points

Supervised Learning

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Build a function which predicts the label of all points in the space

Formal Definitions

Clustering: Given {X1, . . . ,Xn}, build a functionf : X → {1, . . . , k}.

Dimensionality reduction: Given {X1, . . . ,Xn} ∈ RD , build afunction f : RD → Rd

Semi-supervised: Given {X1, . . . ,Xn} and {Y1, . . . ,Ym} withm << n, build a function f : X → Y

Supervised: Given {(X1,Y1), . . . , (Xn,Yn)}, build f : X → Y

Questions

Key question: how to define ”regularity”, or similarity betweenpoints?

How to translate this into an algorithm?

Focus of this talk: consider and exploit the geometric structure ofthe data

Learning Theory: provide a framework for analyzing the behavior ofthese algorithms

Questions

Geometric Learning

Typically, one tries to implement the following simple idea

Clustering: two ”close” points should be in the same clusterDimensionality reduction: ”closeness” should be preservedSemi-supervised/supervised: two ”close” points should havethe same label

Examples: k-means clustering, k-nearest neighbors...

Geometric Learning

Manifold Learning

The notion of closeness can be further refined using the distribution ofthe data:

Probabilistic viewpoint: density shortens the distances

Cluster viewpoint: points in connected regions share the sameproperties

Manifold viewpoint: distance should be measured ”along” the datamanifold

Mixed version: two ”close” points are those connected by a shortpath going through high density regions

Manifold Learning

Regularization

Adopt a functional viewpoint for convenience

We want to define functions that conform with the regularitiesmentioned above: values on close points should be close:Xi ∼ Xj ⇒ f (Xi ) ∼ f (Xj)

Gradient norm∫‖∇f ‖2dµ

Weighted gradient norm∫‖∇f ‖2pαdµ

Manifold gradient∫‖∇Mf ‖2pαdµ

Regularization

Implementation of this idea

Problem: the manifold structure M is unknown, and the density isunknown!

Approaches: density estimation, manifold estimation, densityestimation on a manifold ???

None of these

Manifolds or densities may not exist as suchJust focus on the smoothness to be enforced on the datapoints

None of these

Laplacian Regularization

Neighborhood graph: weighted graph with xi as vertices,w(xi , xj) = h(‖xi − xj‖) (h(z) = e−z2

, h(z) = 1[z≤t]...)

Regularizer

N(f ) =n∑

w(xi , xj)(f (xi )− f (xj))2

When w(xi , xj) is large (points are close), the function f shouldhave a close value on xi and xj

Laplacian of the graph L = D −W , with Dii =∑

j wij and Wij = wij

N(f ) = f TLf

Variant L′ = (1− D−1W ) (normalized Laplacian)

, h(z) = 1[z≤t]...)

Regularizer

N(f ) =n∑

w(xi , xj)(f (xi )− f (xj))2

j wij and Wij = wij

N(f ) = f TLf

, h(z) = 1[z≤t]...)

Regularizer

N(f ) =n∑

w(xi , xj)(f (xi )− f (xj))2

j wij and Wij = wij

N(f ) = f TLf

, h(z) = 1[z≤t]...)

Regularizer

N(f ) =n∑

w(xi , xj)(f (xi )− f (xj))2

j wij and Wij = wij

N(f ) = f TLf

Using Laplacian Regularizer

Dimensionality reduction: project on last eigenvectors of L

Clustering: threshold eigenvectors of L, or project first and usek-means afterwards

minf⊥1 ‖f ‖=1

Semi-supervised/supervised: use regularization

n∑i=1

(f (xi )− yi )2 + λf TLf

minf⊥1 ‖f ‖=1

n∑i=1

minf⊥1 ‖f ‖=1

n∑i=1

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Laplacian Eigenmap (first two eigenvectors)

IID Framework

Assume the data is sampled i.i.d. from an unknown P

What happens when n →∞?

Towards what does the empirical quantities converge, at which rate,what does it mean?

Do we really obtain the desired effect?

IID Framework

Convergence properties

Two cases:

the neighborhood size is fixed (von Luxburg, B., Belkin 2005)

the neighborhood size goes to zero as n increases (Hein, Audibert2005, 2006)

Theorem

On a compact manifold M with metric g and density p (wrt µ), if t → 0and ntd+4/ log n →∞

limn→∞

f TL′f =

∫M‖∇f ‖2M p2

√det gdµ a.s.

Two cases:

Theorem

limn→∞

f TL′f =

∫M‖∇f ‖2M p2

√det gdµ a.s.

Two cases:

Theorem

limn→∞

f TL′f =

∫M‖∇f ‖2M p2

√det gdµ a.s.

Conclusion

Goal is not to identify the manifold, but to exploit the(approximate) low-dimensionality / clustered-ness of the data

Transpose manifolds to graphs (finite set of data)

Very active area of research (best semi-supervised algorithms usethis idea) but

Theory very limitedMany algorithmic issues (choice of the graph, weights,regularizer...)Large application potential

Conclusion

Bibliography

Online resources: http://www.cse.msu.edu/ lawhiu/manifold/

U. von Luxburg, O. Bousquet, and M. Belkin. Limits of spectralclustering. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems(NIPS) 17. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005.

M. Hein, J.-Y. Audibert, and U. von Luxburg. From Graphs toManifolds - Weak and Strong Pointwise Consistency of GraphLaplacians. In Proceedings of the 18th Annual Conferecnce onLearning Theory (COLT), pages 470-485, Springer, 2005.

M. Hein and J.-Y. Audibert: Intrinsic Dimensionality Estimation ofSubmanifolds in Euclidean space. In Proceedings of the 22ndInternational Conference on Machine Learning, 289 - 296 (2005)

M. Hein: Uniform convergence of adaptive graph-basedregularization. In Proceedings of the Conference on Learning Theory(COLT), 15, Springer, New York (2006)

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