Dimensionality Reduction via Distributed Persistence - DIPOLE

Explore dimensionality reduction through a novel gradient-descent-based approach called DIPOLE in this 59-minute conference talk. Delve into the two-term loss function, combining local metric and global topological preservation. Discover how distributed persistence, utilizing random small subsets, overcomes computational challenges in topological calculations. Examine the theoretical guarantees, including almost sure convergence, and compare DIPOLE's performance against t-SNE and UMAP on standard datasets. Learn about the computational concerns, distributed persistence metrics, and properties, including invertibility and Lipschitz inverse. Analyze qualitative and quantitative results, gaining insights into this innovative technique for dimensionality reduction in data analysis and visualization.