Title :
Tangent space guided intelligent neighbor finding
Author :
Gashler, Mike ; Martinez, Tony
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT, USA
fDate :
July 31 2011-Aug. 5 2011
Abstract :
We present an intelligent neighbor-finding algorithm called SAFFRON that chooses neighboring points while avoiding making connections between points on geodesically distant regions of a manifold. SAFFRON identifies the suitability of points to be neighbors by using a relaxation technique that alternately estimates the tangent space at each point, and measures how well the estimated tangent spaces align with each other. This technique enables SAFFRON to form high-quality local neighborhoods, even on manifolds that pass very close to themselves. SAFFRON is even able to find neighborhoods that correctly follow the manifold topology of certain self-intersecting manifolds.
Keywords :
learning (artificial intelligence); relaxation theory; topology; SAFFRON; geodesically distant region; intelligent neighbor-finding algorithm; machine learning; manifold topology; relaxation technique; self-intersecting manifold; similarly aligned friend finding relaxation; tangent space; Convergence; Equations; Euclidean distance; Manifolds; Silicon; Topology;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks (IJCNN), The 2011 International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-9635-8
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.2011.6033560